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A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame. EPA

People wearing protective face masks queue as they try to watch the Olympic cauldron during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Flame of Recovery tour at Sendai Station, Miyagi prefecture, on Saturday. Kyodo/Reuters

People queue as they try to watch the Olympic cauldron during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Flame of Recovery tour at Sendai Station, Miyagi prefecture, on Saturday. Kyodo/Reuters

The Olympic flame on a cauldron is displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Friday. EPA

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

A woman peeks through a fence surrounding the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. AP

A group of students from Uruguay pose for a souvenir picture on the Olympic Rings set outside the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. AP

People stop to take a picture of one of the main entrances of the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. AP

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park on Friday. EPA

People in a queue to see the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

People crowd around the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame. EPA

People wearing protective face masks queue as they try to watch the Olympic cauldron during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Flame of Recovery tour at Sendai Station, Miyagi prefecture, on Saturday. Kyodo/Reuters

People queue as they try to watch the Olympic cauldron during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Flame of Recovery tour at Sendai Station, Miyagi prefecture, on Saturday. Kyodo/Reuters

The Olympic flame on a cauldron is displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Friday. EPA

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

A woman peeks through a fence surrounding the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. AP

A group of students from Uruguay pose for a souvenir picture on the Olympic Rings set outside the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. AP

People stop to take a picture of one of the main entrances of the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. AP

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park on Friday. EPA

People in a queue to see the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

People crowd around the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame on a cauldron displayed at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park. EPA

A family takes a selfie with the Olympic flame. EPA

Tokyo 2020 organisers 'making alternative plans' for potential Olympic Games delay - reports

While the coronavirus outbreak has disrupted sports events around the world, Japan has been steadfast in saying that the Games will go on

The National

March 22, 2020

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