THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 4, 2021 at 14:56 JST
A video conference was held on March 3 involving, from left, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, IOC President Thomas Bach, Seiko Hashimoto, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee head, IPC President Andrew Parsons and Tamayo Marukawa, the state minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Pool)
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