Tokyo Olympic head expects call from IOC's Bach on new date

Tokyo Olympic organizers expect to talk with IOC President Thomas Bach this week about potential dates for next year's rescheduled games, with several reports suggesting they will be in the same July-August time slot.

The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers last week postponed the Olympics until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

"I anticipate speaking to President Bach this week," Tokyo organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said Monday, speaking at the opening of an executive board meeting.

"He tends to call me directly, and that puts me in trouble because I don't have good command of English."
"There are opinions for both options and they both have advantages and disadvantages that are being compared and then will be decided."
"In addition, there will need to be guarantees when we book the new dates, and there is a possibility this will incur rent payments. So there will be costs incurred and we will need to consider them one by one. I think that will be the tougher process."
Bach has repeatedly called the Tokyo Olympics the best prepared in history. However, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso also termed them "cursed."