After insisting for weeks that the <a href=”https://cnn.com/2020/03/22/americas/canada-no-athletes-tokyo-olympics/index.html” target=”_blank”>2020 Olympic Games</a> would go ahead as planned, Tokyo’s Organizing Committee says that <a href=”https://cnn.com/2020/03/22/world/olympics-coronavirus-tokyo-postpone/index.html” target=”_blank”>postponement</a> is now a “realistic option.”

Committee President Yoshiro Mori conceded that although the preference is to host the spectacle as normal in July, organizers would work