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IOC’s Thomas Bach cancels Japan trip because of virus cases, Naomi Osaka weighs in amid athlete concern – Wide World of Sports
As IOC president cancels trip to Japan
IOC President Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement.
Bach was to visit Hiroshima next Monday and meet the torch relay and then probably travel to Tokyo.
Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said last week that the trip would be “tough” for Bach to make, which was interpreted in Japan as meaning it was canceled.
The trip was made impossible because of a state of emergency…
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