Olympic Games operations director confirms athletes will not need vaccines to compete in Tokyo

Subscribe to our channel! Mandatory credit: Tokyo 2021 The Olympic Games operations director Pierre Ducrey announced that athletes hoping to compete in this summer’s Tokyo Olympics will not need to be vaccinated in order to take part. The announcement came during a press conference held in Tokyo and attended by international partners via videocall on Wednesday, during which, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) unveiled the first in a series of COVID-19 ’playbooks’ aimed to safely carry out the summer Olympic Games in 2021.