Published 07:31 IST, February 9th 2021

Joe Biden says decision on 2020 Tokyo Games 'has to be based on science'

Joe Biden appreciated the Japanese Prime Minister, stating that the leader was “working hard” to get the postponed Tokyo Olympics game started this year.

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Decision about hosting 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, which were earlier postponed due to coronavirus pandemic, must be based on science, US President Joe Biden said at a live-streamed programme with Westwood One Sports Rio. Furrmore, US President Joe Biden said late Sunday that it “remains to be seen” if United States will send a team for Olympics, as organizers at International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to commence sport this summer, stressing that health precautionary measures were put in place.

At Super Bowl half-time rio interview, US president cautioned that if game was to be resumed, it h to be done with countermeasures in wake of ongoing pandemic. Furrmore, Biden stressed that he hopes US can play, “I hope it's possible,” former said, LIVE on-air. He appreciated Japanese Prime Minister, stating that leer was “working hard” to get games started. Earlier last month, US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held a telephonic conversation wherein y discussed shared issues of interest, however, without referring to Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Suga told press conference. games were postponed for 2021 summer last year due to COVID-19 pandemic. As per new rules, Japan’s government urged that athletes for postponed Olympics will be encourd to leave country just a day or two after y’ve finished.

[Man and a woman walk past near Olympic rings floating in water in Odaiba section in Tokyo. Credit: AP]

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Stringent rules and guidelines

According to sources of AP, opening ceremony planned at vill on Tokyo Bay will have stringent rules and guidelines, which will include vaccination and rapid PCR negative tests. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach met Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and John Coates, IOC member in charge of overseeing Tokyo preparations to draft guidelines for conducting safe games. Alleging that postponed Tokyo Olympics will be “all business with few frills,” Coats said that athletes would be discourd from sightseeing, ding that “staying longer in vill increases potential for problems.”

Furr, Coats told AP, that committee will introduce social distancing, masks, bubbles in venues and Athletes Vill to suppress any risks of virus spre reasonably well, as country registered 1,900 deaths, with cases still surging in country. “We don’t kw what situation will be, but some decisions will have to be me alrey in December,” Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games executive director, was quoted saying.

[Yoshiro Mori, president of Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, right, greets John Coates, chairman of Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020 Olympics, during a press conference in Tokyo. Credit: AP]