Tokyo considering 2020 Games postponement among many scenarios: Mori

Yoshiro Mori, President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organising Committee, attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori said on Monday that organizers would consider postponement as one of many scenarios that they aim to have ready in four weeks, but that the Games would not be canceled.

Mori told a news conference a team of people from among the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers would discuss how to proceed with the Games.

Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by Kim Coghill

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