IOC president: ‘It’s not about whether Olympic Games take place, it’s about how’

IOC president Thomas Bach says it is a case of “how” not “if” the Olympics take place this year (Adam Davy/PA)

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has dismissed renewed speculation surrounding the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games and insisted: “It’s not about the ‘whether’ the Games takes place, it’s about the ‘how’.”

Bach gave short shrift to recent suggestions that the Games could be pushed back in the Olympic cycle or even moved to another city, and rejected suggestions that staging the Games amid the current pandemic may be seen as irresponsible.