At the online global press conference after the IOC executive committee meeting, Bach said: the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics are progressing smoothly.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 15 (reporter Ji Ye, Wang Meng) The International Olympic Committee held a meeting of the executive committee remotely through video connection late at night on the 14th, Beijing time, when answering a question from Xinhua News Agency, the president of the International Olympic Committee Bach said that under the outbreak of the new Crown pneumonia, the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics went smoothly, and all relevant parties should consider how to use the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Affected by the epidemic, global sports events were shut down, but the Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee focused on epidemic prevention and control and the preparation of Winter Olympic Games. At the online global press conference after the IOC executive committee meeting, Bach said: “The preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics are progressing smoothly. We will soon convene the coordination committee meeting (Beijing Winter Olympics of the International Olympic Committee) in June, and all international winter sports associations will attend. Relevant reports show that Beijing has made excellent progress in both infrastructure and operation.”
The Tokyo Olympic Games have been held from July 24, 2020to August 8, 2021. the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be held from August 24, 2021to September 5, 2021, there are only five months left before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the history of modern Olympics, both the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games from 1924 to 1992 were held in the same year. Since the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994, the interval between the Winter Olympics and the last Summer Olympics is usually one and a half years.
Bach believes that the two Olympic Games are so close that relevant parties should consider how to use their power. “We need to consider what advantages the Beijing Winter Olympics and Tokyo Olympic Games may bring to the preparation of Beijing Winter Olympics because it will keep the whole world paying high attention to the Olympic Games. This requires every interested party, including the organizing committee, sponsors and partners, rights-holding broadcasters and everyone else, to think about the opportunities contained therein.”
Bach also said that the Beijing Winter Olympics will continue to receive suggestions from the International Olympic Committee and its Olympic department and Coordination Committee.