Xinhua News Agency, Oslo, March 20 the Norwegian Olympic Committee said on the 20th that it had sent a letter requesting the International Olympic Committee to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games before the new coronavirus epidemic was brought under control.
The Norwegian Olympic Committee said that after discussions with individual sports management agencies in the country, they put forward this request in a letter to the president of the International Olympic Committee Bach.
The Tokyo Olympic Games is expected to be held from July 24 to August 9, and the Paralympic Games will be held from August 25 to September 6. In recent days, the voices of athletes and sports officials demanding to postpone the Olympic Games have become higher and higher, which has put more pressure on the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and the Japanese government. However, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee still said that they would still arrange preparations according to the idea that the Tokyo Olympic Games would be held as scheduled.
The spread of the new coronavirus epidemic has led to the suspension of a series of Olympic qualifying and testing competitions. According to reports, the International Olympic Committee has previously said that only about 57% of athletes have obtained the qualification. In an interview with the media earlier, Bach said for the first time that the International Olympic Committee was evaluating various situations of the Tokyo Olympic Games.