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TOKYO (Reuters) -
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said on Wednesday it was only
natural for news organisations to have different views on the
Olympics Summer Games, when asked about an editorial from a
sponsor company urging cancellation.
He added that no board member had discussed the cancellation or
delay of the Games as a possibility during a Tokyo 2020 board
meeting held earlier in the day.
Japanese newspaper publisher Asahi Shimbun, an official partner
of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, called for the Summer Games to be
cancelled in an editorial on Wednesday, citing risks to public
safety and strains on the medical system from the COVID-19
pandemic.
(Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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