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- I'm here at the Olympic Village in Tokyo.
And this is where around 18,000 athletes and officials
will be staying during the games.
But the concern is that there could be
a super spreader event at the Olympics.
It's raised a huge logistical challenge for the organizers.
You can't really create a kind of bubble situation
for the Olympics.
So what they're doing is
they're creating controlled zones
where they don't want people to leave.
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Controlling people
and making sure that they follow various rules
will be a huge challenge.
So we are going to see
how the organizers plan to make sure
the world's biggest sporting event during the pandemic
doesn't become a COVID hotspot.
So this is where the athletes are gonna be eating.
Of course, the dining area is one of the places
at the Olympics where people like to socialize normally.
But that's one thing that the organizers want to avoid.
It's a potential hotspot for virus transmission.
So most of the athletes will be eating by themselves.
This is the fitness center,
and a special precaution is here as well of course.
The organizers here say
that they will be asking athletes to wear masks.
There's quite aggressive air circulation as well.
But the machines are very close together.
So this is a place where they are saying that
if athletes come,
and it is very busy,
they will be turning them away at the door.
These are the condominiums
that the athletes are gonna be staying
in here in the village.
And we can get up to eight athletes in one apartment.
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This is an event that's spread all over the country.
It's all around the Greater Tokyo region.
It's even 500 miles away in Hokkaido in the north,
where the marathon is going to be held.
So the goal is to create this kind of archipelago
of controlled zones across Japan.
When people travel between the village say,
and the Olympic stadium or other venues,
there'll be dedicated bus and taxi links.
There will be punishments
that will be imposed on people that go into the city.
The organizers even said that
they want people to have the GPS tracking function
turned on the smartphone when they come in.
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The organizers have come up with some very strict rules
about what people can and cannot do.
In general, in Japan,
people do follow the rules.
But there's some concern here in Japan
that people coming from overseas
will be a bit more cavalier.
So you have quite a large movement of people around.
And that's a challenge
to make sure that those people don't spread the virus
amongst each other,
and that we don't have a sharp increase
which could put the Olympics really into crisis.
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