Tokyo Olympics Test Events To Resume In March | Olympics News
Tokyo Olympics test events will resume in March and a decision on fan attendance will come in the spring, an official said on Friday, as preparations continued for the postponed Games despite ongoing coronavirus fears. The comments from Yasuo Mori, deputy executive director of the Games Operations Bureau, come after International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach last week said he was “very confident” the Games will have fans. The Tokyo Olympics were postponed for a year over the coronavirus, becoming the first to be rescheduled in peace time. The 2020 Games will now start on July 23, 2021.
“We are… thinking about what kind of Tokyo 2020 Games we are going to have in terms of spectators,” Mori told reporters, adding that government policy on the matter “will probably be decided in the spring.”
Most of the test events, which function as dress rehearsals for each sport, had already taken place before the Games were delayed in March.
But 18 remain to be held, including a trial run of the Olympic marathon which was relocated from Tokyo to the northern city of Sapporo due to concerns over the capital’s summer heat.
