{"id":26761,"date":"2021-01-13T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/tokyo-2020-head-says-impossible-to-delay-olympics-as-public-opposition-grows"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T06:17:35","slug":"tokyo-2020-head-says-impossible-to-delay-olympics-as-public-opposition-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26761","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 head says &#8216;impossible&#8217; to delay Olympics as public opposition grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese poll on Wednesday finds just 16% think Games should go ahead this year but Tokyo committee chief says preparations will continue<\/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>The president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020<\/a> organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, has said preparations for the summer Olympics will continue, despite growing doubts that the Games can be held while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a> continues to rage.<\/p>\n<p>Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, said postponing the Games a second time would be \u201cabsolutely impossible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/13\/tokyo-2020-head-says-impossible-to-delay-olympics-as-public-opposition-grows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese poll on Wednesday finds just 16% think Games should go ahead this year but Tokyo committee chief says preparations will continueCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, Y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26761","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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26763,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26761\/revisions\/26763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}