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Tokyo Olympic Body Says Games on Schedule After Member’s Remark

The Olympic rings installed outside the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo, on March 11.

Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics reiterated that the games are going forward on schedule following a reportBloomberg Terminal that one official plans to propose delaying the event because of the coronavirus.

Comments on the postponement proposal by Haruyuki Takahashi, an executive board member of the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, were made to Kyodo News on Wednesday morning, according to a representative from Tokyo’s organizing body for the Games.