well Japan's Olympic Committee president
has just said that they have reached the
stage where they will have to consider
postponing this year's Olympics in Tokyo
pressure has been mounting to delay the
games with Canada and Australia
announcing they won't be sending teams
to the games in July the president of
world athletic Sebastian Coe has also
called for the Olympics to be pushed
back well let's head out from the sports
correspondent Katie
Shannon Casey a lot of pressure to get
some clarity on the Olympics yes so what
we're hearing DC is overnight the
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a has
said for the first time there is a
chance that the Olympics will be
postponed up until now our BAE has been
determined the games should continue now
all athletes over the world starting to
say they simply don't want to go the
International Olympic Committee might
now have no option also overnight Canada
became the first major country to
withdraw the country's Olympic and
Paralympic Committee also urgently
called on the IOC International
Paralympic Committee and the World
Health Organization to postpone the
games for a year the Australian Olympic
Committee has said an Australian team
could not be assembled in the changing
circumstances and they told their
athletes to prepare for a 2021 Games
meanwhile world athletics president Lord
Coe has sent a letter to his IOC
counterpart Thomas Park requesting the
games be moved from July Coe said in a
letter that an Olympic Games in July
this year is neither feasible nor
desirable when a Japan a recent opinion
poll showed that 69 percent of Japanese
people think that the games should be
postponed as well by a year but of
course there's huge resistance to
canceling the games altogether but Gita
the Olympics should be a time of
celebration but at the moment the future
still remains uncertain back to you
Katie Shannon many thanks