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Olympics: 'We cannot postpone again,' Tokyo 2020 boss says of COVID gloom

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is displayed, in Tokyo

The head of Japan's Olympics organising committee ruled out on Thursday another suspension of the Games, despite deep disquiet at the prospect of thousands of athletes and officials arriving during a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections.

Already postponed from last year at the cost of an extra $3.5 billion, a scaled-down version of the Games, with no foreign spectators, is set to start on July 23.

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