IOC president defends delay on postponing Olympics, cites Trump in reasoning
The 2020 Olympics don’t yet have a start date. A decision on timing will be made “as soon as possible.” Holding them in the spring of 2021 hasn’t been ruled out. And what if, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it remains irresponsible to hold them in 2021?
Do you have any regrets about your insistence that the Games were going to open on July 24 as planned? Bach was asked.Any regrets about not mentioning the possibility of postponement sooner, given the concerns raised by athletes?Those were all among the questions on the call. It began with Bach detailing, in a careful 10-minute, 45-second answer, the process behind the postponement decision. He admitted to receiving “alarming information” in recent days about the state of the pandemic.
Story continuesBach responded: “Don’t forget, in the last couple of weeks, the measures of many governments, they were limited until middle of April, some the beginning of May. We could not see measures having been taken lasting until July. Maybe you’ve seen the latest declarations in the United States, from President Trump, about the prospect of middle of April, being able to lift many restrictions. So, there, we were in line with these developments.
“We are not the World Health Organization,” he said. “And we are not in a position to give advice to any of the world leaders how to handle this challenge in his or her respective country.”
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