IOC Disputes Report That Games Will Happen Even If Japan Says No
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The International Olympic Committee pushed back at characterizations of comments made by long-standing senior official Dick Pound in a Japanese magazine, in which he was reported to say that the IOC would proceed with the Tokyo Olympics even in the face of opposition from Japan’s prime minister.
According to the magazine Shukan Bunshun, Pound said the Olympics would go forward even if Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called for them to be canceled. He was responding to a question asking what action would be taken if Suga made such a call, according to a Japanese-language report released yesterday.