Irish chiefs encouraged by positive soundings on 2021 Tokyo Olympics

Sport Ireland CEO John Treacy with Sarah Keane, chairperson of the Olympic Federation of Ireland. File photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Irish sports chiefs have welcomed soundings from Tokyo that next year's rearranged Olympic Games will go ahead come what may.

Japan's Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto said today that the event should take place "at any cost" while the International Olympic Committee's vice-president John Coates was quoted the day before saying that the Games would happen “with or without Covid”.