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  • TTOC President Brian Lewis

    Lewis supports staging of Tokyo Games

  • The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has pledged to support National Olympic Committees (NOCs) gain access to COVID-19 vaccines for their athletes prior to Tokyo 2020.  IOC President Thomas Bach told members and NOCs on separate calls this week that the IOC and the World Health Organization (WHO) would help NOCs struggling to obtain the vaccines in the lead-up to the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, two sources with knowledge of the talks told insidethegames.  The IOC has repeatedly said it will not jump the queue ahead of those who need a vaccination most and has insisted it will not be mandatory for athletes to compete at the Games.  But Bach and other IOC officials, including Athletes Commission vice-chair Danka Bartekova, have encouraged athletes to have the vaccine when they are able to do so.  The IOC has stated publicly on several occasions that it hopes to have many foreign participants as possible vaccinated for COVID-19 before Tokyo 2020.  A handful of countries have begun rolling out vaccines in recent weeks, but there is concern that athletes from smaller and less developed nations who are due to compete at Tokyo 2020 will be unable to access them before the Games.  IOC President Thomas Bach has claimed there is no reason whatsoever that Tokyo 2020 will not open as scheduled ©Getty Images IOC President Thomas Bach has claimed there is no reason whatsoever that Tokyo 2020 will not open as scheduled ©Getty Images Discussions have taken place between the IOC and the WHO regarding its Covax project, aimed at speeding up the distribution of vaccines in developing countries.  The IOC is hopeful the WHO scheme will enable athletes from developing nations to receive the vaccine in time for the Games, scheduled to open on July 23.  While the IOC and Tokyo 2020 have stressed the vaccine will not be a "silver bullet" for the Games, their development has nonetheless boosted hopes of the Games going ahead.  It forms part of a "toolbox" of countermeasures the IOC and organisers are planning to implement if the Olympics and Paralympics take place as planned.  The IOC and Tokyo 2020 are also working on what they call a "playbook" for the Games to ensure the event can be held safely, featuring rapid testing and vaccines.  Bach's call with NOCs came hours after British newspaper The Times reported the Japanese Government had privately concluded Tokyo 2020 would be cancelled because of the COVID-19 crisis.  The Japanese Government said there was "absolutely no truth" in the report, while the IOC said it remains committed to the Games taking place "this year" - despite growing fears over a rise in coronavirus cases across the world, thought to be caused by new variants of COVID-19.  Bach told Kyodo News earlier this week there was "no reason whatsoever" to think Tokyo 2020 will not open as scheduled and said the IOC did not have a "plan B" for the Games.  The IOC has vowed to help countries with access to COVID-19 vaccines ©Getty Images

    IOC and WHO pledge to help NOCs with vaccine access prior to Tokyo 2020

  • TTOC PRESIDENT: Brian Lewis

    Full backing

  • Simone Biles Says She’ll “Do Anything” to Compete at Tokyo Olympics: “I’m in 100 Percent”

    Simone Biles Says She’ll “Do Anything” to Compete at Tokyo Olympics: “I’m in 100 Percent”

  • Thomas Bach speaks to the media during a visit to Tokyo's National Stadium on Nov. 17, 2020. | AFP-JIJI

    Thomas Bach says entire Olympic movement united in determination to stage Tokyo Games

  • IOC President Thomas Bach Addresses Tokyo Games Cancellation Rumors (Video)

    IOC President Thomas Bach Addresses Tokyo Games Cancellation Rumors (Video)

  • The Japanese Government has denied reports that Tokyo 2020 will be cancelled ©Getty Images

    Japanese Government claim "absolutely no truth" in report of Tokyo 2020 cancellation

  • A member of staff outside the Olympic Museum in Tokyo. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images

    IOC chief declares 'there is no plan B' and that Tokyo Olympics will go ahead

  • There have been calls for Olympic athletes to receive the coronavirus vaccine before the start of the delayed Tokyo Games. Photograph: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

    Olympic athletes and officials ponder vaccine dilemma as Tokyo Games loom

  • Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivers a policy speech during an ordinary Diet session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021.Koji Sasahara/AP

    Japan's PM vows Olympics will be proof of victory over virus

  • The Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympics began a year ago ©Getty Images

    Anniversary of Lausanne 2020 Opening Ceremony marked 4

  • T&T swimmer Dylan Carter

    Carter sets off

  • Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee CEO Toshiro Muto. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

    Official costs of Tokyo Olympics up by 22 per cent to $15.4B

  • TTOC president Brian Lewis

    T&TOC forced to look for new home

  • Two hundred days before the scheduled start of the Olympics, Japan’s borders remain shut. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

    A golden year for sport? 2021 is already looking like 2020 – with a bitter twist

  • Dylan Carter.

    Work balance

  •  Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president, said: ‘Technology has improved, significantly even since 2012.’ Photograph: Masatoshi Okauchi/Shutterstock

    Sebastian Coe warns it will be harder than ever to cheat at Tokyo Olympics

  • New Zealand sent a team of 199 athletes to the Rio 2016 Olympics, but is set to send between 200 and 220 to the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Games ©Getty Images

    New Zealand "on track" to send team of more than 200 athletes to Tokyo 2020

  • Break dancing gets Olympic status to debut at Paris Games in 2024

  • TTOC president Brian Lewis

    Lewis: Our athletes will not be affected more than any other

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