Covid crushes foreign fans’ hopes of a Games seat

Posted By : Rina Latuperissa
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Overseas fans will be banned from this summer’s pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, organizers said Saturday, in a bid to reduce virus risks and convince a skeptical Japanese public the Games will be safe.

The unprecedented decision will make the Tokyo Games the first ever held without overseas spectators, as organizers scale back their ambitions for the event.

When the decision to postpone the Games was taken last year, officials said the delay would allow them to hold the event as “proof of humanity’s triumph over the virus.”

But instead, the Games are shaping up to be a largely television event for most of the world, with little of the international party atmosphere that usually characterizes an Olympics.

After talks with local organizers, Japanese officials and Olympic and Paralympic chiefs, Games officials said the virus situation in Japan and abroad remained very challenging.

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