The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, which postponed the Olympics a year after the spread of Corona 19, expressed a desire to compete in the same time and place as this year.

According to Japanese media such as the Asahi Shimbun on the 11th, the Tokyo Organizing Committee Secretary-General Muto City said that he wants to hold the tournament with the same plan as this year at a news conference held on the Internet the day before.

The Tokyo Organizing Committee discusses the schedule and location of the tournament by videoconference with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the 16th.

The Tokyo Olympics, which will be held from July 24 to August 9 this year, will be postponed for a year after the agreement between the Japanese government, the Tokyo Organizing Committee and the IOC in the wake of the Corona 19, and will be held from July 23 to August 8.

The opening and closing dates of the convention were pulled day by day.

Since the competition period is almost the same as this year, the Tokyo Organizing Committee expects the Olympics to be held next year according to the schedule.

The advantage is that if the tournament schedule and venue are not changed, more than 5 million tickets already sold can be used.

During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, the first softball match was held in Fukushima Prefecture, which suffered great damage, and in the midsummer heat of Tokyo, a marathon and warning were held in Sapporo, Hokkaido for four days in the second half of the tournament.

Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in 43 stadiums of 9 local governments.

The Tokyo Organizing Committee will visit the Makuhari Messe Hall (Chiba), where three Olympic Games including Taekwondo and Wrestling, and four Paralympic Games will be held, and the Tokyo International Forum, which is a weightlifting stadium, in May.

Meanwhile, in the wake of the Corona 19, the Tokyo Olympics torch was suspended and IOC Chair Thomas Bach's visit to Japan was canceled in May.

(Yonhap News / Photo = Kyodo, Yonhap News)