Tokyo Olympics should be delayed: Japan committee member

'Training puts athletes at risk,' medalist Yamaguchi warns

20200319N JOC Kaori Yamaguchi

Kaori Yamaguchi is a professor of physical education at the University of Tsukuba.

DAISUKE YAMAGUCHI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Summer Olympics should be postponed, a Japanese committee official told Nikkei on Thursday, arguing that athletes are already at risk by continuing to train for the games amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

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