2024-03-03 18:45:22
Text: Viviana Díaz
In recent weeks, a rumor terrified sports lovers and not-so-lovers: the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, postponed to 2021 due to the scourge of COVID-19, were also canceled this year.
Alarm bells went off and it went viral. With a second strain of the virus going around, who would think it’s fake news? Well it is, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame is still planned to burn this summer.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and the organizers of the long-awaited event assured this Friday that their intention is to hold the Olympic Games on the agreed date safely.
For Suga, the celebration of the five rings competition will be a sign of “the victory of humanity over the new coronavirus,” as he declared during a parliamentary session.
For its part, the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee recalled in a statement that they are working on preparations for the event, together with the Japanese government, the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee.
Although the political will is to hold the Olympic Games, some surveys and polls reflect that the Japanese people are concerned about the state of the pandemic in the country if the event that will attract thousands of athletes from around the world to the Asian capital is held. .
Some reports indicate that a good part of Japanese public opinion is in favor of postponing the contest again and even canceling it.