The chairman of the Japanese Olympic Committee Yamashita Taiyu said recently that he believes that the Tokyo Olympic Games will be held as scheduled next year, but ensuring the health of the citizens is the primary task at present.
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, April 17 (Reporter Prince Jiang) Yamashita Taiyu, chairman of the Japanese Olympic Committee, said a few days ago that he believed that the Tokyo Olympic Games would be held as scheduled next year, but ensuring the health of the citizens was the primary task at present.
Yamashita Taiyu said in an interview with Japanese media: “I believe that the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games can be held as scheduled next year, but the primary task is to protect the lives and health of the Japanese people.”
Affected by the new Crown epidemic, the Olympic Games originally planned to open on July 24 this year was postponed to July 23, 2021.
Yamashita Taiyu, who also served as chairman of the Japanese Judo Alliance, apologized for the recent large-scale infection of the new coronavirus by the Alliance staff. He said that since he became chairman of the Japanese Olympic Committee in last June, he had been very busy with his work, he did not give full play to the leadership of the chairman of Judo Alliance.
“I am very sorry for all the people.” The 63-year-old Yamashita Taiyu said.
Since the beginning of April, 17 of the 39 full-time employees of the All-Japan Judo Alliance have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, including the executive director Zhong Lizhuang.
Yamashita Taiyu is one of the best judo athletes in history. In the 9 years from 1977 to 1985, he won 203 consecutive games and won the World Championship three times, he won 95 kilograms of gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. After retiring in 1985, he won the “National Honor Award”, Japan’s highest honor award “.