Online petition calling for cancellation of Tokyo 2020 gathers steam 2 minutes read Tokyo, May 7 (EFE).- An online petition calling for the cancellation of next month’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games amid Japan’s fourth wave of Covid-19 exceeded 210,000 signatures on Friday. “We demand cancellation of the Tokyo Olympic Games in order to protect our lives and well-being,” the petition says. “As numbers show, the widespread outbreak of Covid-19 has not at all been under control,” it says, adding that “with the circumstances that we are under, it is certainly unlikely that the Tokyo Olympics could be held safely.” The campaign, launched on May 5 by well-known Japanese lawyer and activist Kenji Utsunomiya, is addressed to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach.