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"Currently more than 80% of people want the
Olympics to be postponed or cancelled. Who and on what authority
is it being forced through?" Son wrote in a Twitter post
https://twitter.com/
masason/status/1395955033036918785?s=20 in Japanese.
The billionaire last week said he was "afraid" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-japan-softbank-idUKKBN2CU0ZL
of holding the Olympics during the pandemic. Polls consistently
show most Japanese people oppose holding the Games as planned.
The Reuters Corporate Survey on Friday showed that some 70% of
big Japanese companies also want the Games delayed or cancelled,
after the authorities postponed the event in 2020 for a year due
to the pandemic.
But a top International Olympic Committee official said on
Friday the Games would "absolutely" go ahead even if the capital
were still under a state of emergency, given "all of the plans
we have in place to protect the safety and security of the
athletes and the people of Japan."
(Reporting by Sam Nussey; Editing by William Mallard)
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