Japanese PM Reiterates Commitment To Host Olympics

It follows newspaper reports that they were set to be cancelled.

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said the country is determined to host the Olympics in Tokyo in July and August. 

Local organisers have pushed back on a report in the Times of London that the games will have to be cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic. 

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said yesterday there was no reason to believe the games would not go ahead. 

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