Sunday, 9 May 2021
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted athletes want to take part at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games despite continuing concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coe attended today s Ready Steady Go Tokyo 2020 athletics test event at the National Stadium, which involved 420 competitors including nine foreign athletes. We are very empathetic to the need to be fully recognising that communities around the world are inevitably nervous about many things related to COVID-19, Coe said. We take those concerns very, very seriously. The COVID-19 protocols, particularly that World Athletics have developed over the last year and a half by our health and science teams who are extremely good at this, have consistently helped deliver events in a safe and secure environment.