Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Petition to postpone or cancel Games nears 300,000 signatures

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The Tokyo Olympic Games are under threat of another postponement with the rise of new COVID-19 variants

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titled ‘Cancel the Tokyo Olympics to protect our lives’ has almost garnered 300,000 signatures as Tokyo citizens urge the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Games or cancel it outrightly.

The petition was launched by a Tokyo-based lawyer, Kenji Utsunomiya, on Tuesday, May 5 and as of Saturday, May 8 [10:30 am] had garnered 274,762 signatures. According to the AP, “The petition is addressed to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who has tentative plans to visit Japan later this month. He is expected to meet the Olympic torch relay on May 17 in Hiroshima, and perhaps also travel to Tokyo where small anti-Olympic are protests being planned.

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