A member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee’s executive board said Wednesday he will raise the topic of a possible delay of this summer’s games due to the coronavirus outbreak during a board meeting later this month.
“We need to deal accordingly with (the crisis) based on reality. Time is running out,” Haruyuki Takahashi, a former senior managing director at Japan’s largest advertising agency, Dentsu Inc., told Kyodo News over the phone.
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