Gao Gu zhengzhe made the above statement at the online press conference held here. When the new Crown epidemic broke out more than two months ago, when the reporter asked him if the Olympic Games would be postponed, he once made the same reply “No Plan B.
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, April 14 (Reporter Prince Jiang) “if the new Crown epidemic is still not effectively controlled next year, will the Tokyo Olympic Games be postponed again?” Faced with this problem, Tokyo Olympic organizing committee spokesman Gao Gu zhengzhe said on the 14th that their goal was to prepare for next year’s Olympic Games and did not formulate plan B.
Gao Gu zhengzhe made the above statement at the online press conference held here. When the new Crown epidemic broke out more than two months ago, when the reporter asked him if the Olympic Games would be postponed, he once made the same reply “No Plan B. On March 24, Tokyo Olympic Games officially announced a one-year delay.
“What I can tell you today is that the new holding date of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has just been confirmed, and the Olympic organizing committee and all parties are working hard for the new goal.” He said. “We didn’t make Plan B.”
The chief executive officer of Tokyo organizing committee for the Olympic Games Wu Fujio made a similar statement last week, saying: “I don’t think anyone can say whether the epidemic can be controlled before next July…… We should do our best instead of considering Plan B. Human beings should combine all their technologies and wisdom and work hard to develop therapeutic methods, drugs and vaccines.”
Regarding the cost increase after the delay of the Olympic Games, Gao Gu zhengzhe said: “We can’t disclose it now, because it is very difficult to predict the specific additional expenditures after the delay of the Olympic Games.”
The President of the International Olympic Committee Bach said in an interview with German media on the 13th that the International Olympic Committee would add hundreds of millions of dollars to the extension of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, he also said that the IOC would follow the financial sharing plan discussed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before the extension of the announcement in March.