Tokyo organizers, government take offensive on virus threat
(WorldNews Sport)

TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo Olympic organizers and the Japanese government went on the offensive Wednesday after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral outbreak, with their fate probably decided in the next three months. Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto abruptly called a news conference late Wednesday afternoon to address comments from former International Olympic Committee vice president Dick Pound in an interview with The Associated Press. `Our basic thoughts are that we will go ahead with the Olympic and Paralympic Games as scheduled,` Muto said, speaking in Japanese. `For the time being, the situation of the coronavirus infection is,...