Media Watch: Tokyo 2020 Too Risky

(ATR) Infectious diseases expert Kentaro Iwata says holding the Tokyo 2020 Games later this year is too big of a risk.

Iwata, speaking with Reuters, said "We are facing far more danger than last year, so why do you have to hold the Olympic Games, cancelled last year due to risk of infections, this year?"

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Iwata's comments come as all Tokyo 2020 stakeholders adamantly deny a report by British newspaper The Times that "the Japanese government has privately concluded that the Tokyo 2020 Games will have to be cancelled".

Organizers have said for months that the only options are holding the postponed Olympics and Paralympics this summer or cancellation.

FIFA Threatens Player Ban

FIFA wants to nip in the bud any plans for a breakaway super league involving top European clubs.

The governing body for world football says it will ban players from the FIFA World Cup and European Championship if they take part in unauthorized events.

Goal.com reports the letter, signed by all six FIFA confederations, makes clear that a potential super league would not be recognized.

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Former South Korean Coach Sentenced

Former South Korean speedskating coach Cho Jae-beom has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for sexual assaulting Olympic champion Shim Suk-hee.

NPR reports Shim accused Cho in dozens of incidents over a three-year period beginning when she was 17.

Cho was found guilty before the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and sentenced to 18 months for physically abusing Shim and several other athletes.

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