Tokyo Olympics will go ahead ‘with or without Covid’ – IOC’s Coates

Tokyo’s postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice-president John Coates told AFP Monday, vowing they will be the “Games that conquered Covid”. The Olympics have never been cancelled outside of the world wars and Coates, speaking in an exclusive interview, was adamant that the Tokyo Games will start on their revised date. “It will take place with or without Covid. The Games will start on July 23…