IOC Chairman "Watch the Transitions Carefully" Receives Pandemic Statement March 13 2:10
IOC President Bach of the International Olympic Committee told Wednesday that the World Health Organization was aware of the new coronavirus as a "pandemic" in response to news reports following the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic torch. "I want to carefully monitor future trends."
Bach said of the fire ceremony, "It was a powerful demonstration of the IOC and the organizing committee's utmost efforts to make the Tokyo Games a great success." Despite the unusual audience due to the impact, the torch relay itself praised what it did on schedule.
On the other hand, WHO's recognition that the new coronavirus can be said to be a pandemic, said that the Tokyo Games, which has attracted attention, said, "I will not say anything by speculation. "We don't want to disturb our efforts," he said. "We can't set a deadline. I don't know how it will progress. I want to watch it carefully." She also showed her attitude to make decisions based on her advice.
He added that the challenge was to stop and postpone the Olympic qualifiers around the world one after another. "We will have to be more flexible over the coming weeks and months. We will do our best to provide a fair qualifying system and environment to all athletes. "