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Coronavirus and sport - Thursday's updates
21 May 2020 09:0021 May 2020 09:00
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IOC boss accepts Olympics would have to be cancelled if not held in 2021

Dan Roan

BBC Sports editor

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach says he understands why the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Games would have to be cancelled if it cannot take place next summer.

Local organisers have said they have no back-up plan after the event was postponed by a year because of the coronavirus crisis.

"You cannot forever employ 3,000 to 5,000 people in an organising committee," Bach told BBC Sport.

"You cannot have the athletes being in uncertainty."

Read more from the interview with Bach here.

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