Tokyo 2021 #1YearToGo

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The Japanese Government has denied reports that Tokyo 2020 will be cancelled ©Getty Images

The Japanese Government has denied reports that this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A member of staff outside the Olympic Museum in Tokyo. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images

  • Bach says ‘no reason’ Games will not open on time in July.
  • Pound suggests the Olympics could go ahead with no fans.
There have been calls for Olympic athletes to receive the coronavirus vaccine before the start of the delayed Tokyo Games. Photograph: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging, Olympians wonder whether they will – and should – be vaccinated in time for the Games

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga delivers a policy speech during an ordinary Diet session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021.Koji Sasahara/AP

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed Monday to get the pandemic under control and hold the already postponed Olympics this summer with ample coronavirus protection.

T&T swimmer Dylan Carter

Top local swimmer embarks on long road to Tokyo

TOP Trinidad and Tobago swimmer Dylan Carter departs home shores today en route through Miami to a training camp in Tenerife, Spain, followed by a three-day stop in Nice, France, for competition, before making tentative plans to return to his San Diego, California base, in mid-February.

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