{"id":26502,"date":"2021-01-08T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/olympics-official-not-certain-tokyo-games-will-go-ahead-coronavirus"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:13:09","slug":"olympics-official-says-he-is-not-certain-tokyo-games-will-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26502","title":{"rendered":"Olympics official says he is not certain Tokyo Games will go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOC\u2019s Dick Pound voices concern after host city declared state of emergency due to third wave of coronavirus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee, has said he \u201ccan\u2019t be certain\u201d that the delayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Games<\/a> will go ahead this summer, as a coronavirus state of emergency was declared in the host city.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the prospects that the Games will open on 23 July, the Canadian told the BBC: \u201cI can\u2019t be certain because the ongoing elephant in the room would be the surges in the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/olympics-official-not-certain-tokyo-games-will-go-ahead-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOC\u2019s Dick Pound voices concern after host city declared state of emergency due to third wave of coronavirusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee, has said he \u201ccan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26503,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions\/26503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}