{"id":32751,"date":"2021-06-03T14:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/olympics-will-go-ahead-says-tokyo-games-chief-after-covid-official-voices-concerns"},"modified":"2021-06-03T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:11:03","slug":"olympics-chief-says-games-will-proceed-after-covid-official-voices-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32751","title":{"rendered":"Olympics chief says Games will proceed after Covid official voices concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers remain bullish despite senior medical adviser saying holding Games during coronavirus pandemic was \u2018not normal\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\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 Olympics<\/a> organising committee, Seiko Hashimoto, has said the Games will go ahead as planned, soon after the Japan\u2019s most senior medical adviser said holding the event under current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> conditions was \u201cnot normal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot postpone again,\u201d Hashimoto said an interview published on Thursday in the Nikkan Sports newspaper.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/olympics-will-go-ahead-says-tokyo-games-chief-after-covid-official-voices-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers remain bullish despite senior medical adviser saying holding Games during coronavirus pandemic was \u2018not normal\u2019See all our coronavirus coverageThe president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Seiko Hashimoto, has said the Games&#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":[88,342,203,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751","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=32751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751\/revisions\/32752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}