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Original caption: Bach supported the opening of the Tokyo Olympics as scheduled and praised the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, January 27
IOC President Bach said on the 27th that although there is currently much speculation about the prospects for the Tokyo Olympics, the IOC will focus on getting the Olympics to open on July 23 this year as planned. In addition, he also highly praised the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee held an online executive committee meeting on the same day. Bach told a press conference after the meeting that about a year before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, all venues for the Beijing Winter Olympics had been completed. the preparations went well.
Despite the impact of the epidemic, the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics face great challenges, but the past year has still achieved remarkable results: the 12 competition venues were completed, the sports icons of the Olympic Games were published in Winter and Paralympics, and the mascot “Bing Dun” Dun “and” Xue Rongrong “also took the Chang’e 5 spacecraft for a historic trip to the moon, medal and torch design work completed, recruitment of volunteers and market development were carried out in an orderly manner.
Anita de Franz, Vice President of the International and American Olympic Committee, spoke at the Executive Committee, expressing her confidence in China’s success in hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics and believed that the US delegation would definitely participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing. Beijing winter.
The Tokyo Olympics remain one of the focus of discussion at the Executive Committee meeting that day. As many regions of Japan, including Tokyo, have entered a state of emergency due to the serious epidemic situation, voices suspecting that the Tokyo Olympics could be canceled have gradually increased. Bach had already refuted those doubts in an interview with Japan’s Kyodo News. At the press conference that day, Bach once again reiterated his confidence that the Tokyo Olympics would be held as scheduled.
“The uncertainty of the epidemic has made everyone have all kinds of speculation about the Tokyo Olympics: cancellation, plan B and even postponement until 2032,” Bach said, “but all these speculations are for athletes preparing for the Games. Olympians. It’s kind of an injury. “
“Therefore, we cannot waste time and energy on these speculations. What we have to do is focus on the job at hand and let the Tokyo Olympics open on July 23 as scheduled. Hold a Games Safe and successful Olympians. “
According to the plan of the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, a plan for the prevention and control of the epidemic at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be released next week. The plan has formulated detailed response plans for different situations that may arise.
Bach said that the International Olympic Committee is very confident that the Tokyo Olympics can be held as scheduled. One reason is that effective epidemic prevention and control measures at many ongoing sporting events have provided Tokyo with many successful experiences.
“This winter, more than 7,000 sporting events are taking place around the world, and about 175,000 athletes have undergone nucleic acid testing, of which only 0.18% of athletes have tested positive. And none of the events caused the epidemic. A concentrated outbreak. ” Bach said.
The Executive Committee meeting on the same day also decided to change the 137th IOC Plenary, which was originally scheduled to be held in Athens on March 10-12 this year, to be held online.
