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IOC offers Tokyo medical help amid call for cancellation

08:03 05/19 TOKYO — Confronted in Japan with some of the strongest medical-community opposition yet to the Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach offered Wednesday to have added medical personnel available to help out when the games open in just over nine weeks.

Tokyo

Tokyo Olympic CEO: Games next year may not be ‘conventional’

10:09 05/15 TOKYO — Almost two months after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said Friday he still could not give an estimate of how much the one-year delay will...

General News

Tokyo organizers, government take offensive on virus threat

12:46 02/26 TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic organizers and the Japanese government went on the offensive Wednesday after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral...

Tokyo

Tokyo tries to quell fear of Olympic-Paralympic cancellation

11:12 02/06 TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizers again tried on Thursday to allay fears that the 2020 Games could be postponed or canceled by the fast-spreading virus from China.