Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks to reporters after a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 12, 2020. - AFP
TOKYO (AFP): Cancelling the 2020 Olympics is 'unthinkable' although the classification of the coronavirus as a pandemic will likely have some impact on the Games, the Tokyo city governor said on Thursday (March 12).
"It can't be said that the announcement of a pandemic would have no impact... But I think cancellation is unthinkable," Yuriko Koike told reporters.
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