The International Olympic Committee and four other organizing bodies of this summer's Tokyo Games plan to hold a high-level meeting next Wednesday to discuss how to handle spectators amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials with knowledge of the matter said.
The online meeting is expected to focus on when to make a decision on whether to allow visitors from overseas and the number of spectators to be permitted at each venue of the Olympics and Paralympics, the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Friday.
With less than five months until the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, how to deal with spectators has been one of the major challenges for organizers of the sporting extravaganza, postponed for one year due to the pandemic.