东京奥运会推迟至2021年

国际奥委会主席巴赫和日本首相安倍晋三于3月24日召开电话会议，会后，国际奥委会与东京奥组委发布联合声明表示，鉴于当前疫情形势，东京第32届奥运会需要改期至2020年后，但不迟于2021年夏天的日期举行。奥运火种将留在日本，东京2020年奥运会和残奥会的名称也不变。此外，东京奥组委主席森喜朗宣布鉴于奥运会已经延期举行，原定于3月26日开始的奥运会火炬接力也将取消，新的奥运会火炬接力计划将另行宣布。

 

 

 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the International Olympic Committee have agreed that the upcoming Tokyo Games “will be held by the summer of 2021,” the prime minister’s office announced Tuesday.

日本首相安倍晋三办公室于本周二（3月24日）宣布，首相安倍晋三和国际奥委会一致同意，东京奥运会将推迟至2021年举办，最晚不超过2021年夏天。

 

The 2020 Summer Olympics were originally slated to kick off in Japan’s capital on July 24, but there has been mounting pressure for organizers to postpone or cancel the Games due to an ongoing pandemic of the novel coronavirus, which the World Health Organization warned Monday is “accelerating.”

2020年东京奥运会原定于7月24日在日本首都东京开幕，但由于新冠肺炎疫情持续，组织者面临的推迟或取消奥运会的压力越来越大。世界卫生组织于本周一（3月23日）警告称，“疫情正在加速蔓延”。

 

“I proposed to postpone for about a year and president Bach responded with 100% agreement,” Abe told reporters in Tokyo Tuesday, referring to Thomas Bach, head of the International Olympic Committee.

本周二（3月24日），安倍晋三在东京对记者说：“我提议推迟大约一年，国际奥委会主席托马斯·巴赫表示完全同意。”

 

Abe - who pushed hard for Tokyo’s selection as the host city - and Bach both agreed that the Games “must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021,” according to a joint statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee.

根据国际奥委会和东京奥组委的联合声明，安倍晋三与巴赫一致同意“奥运会必须重新安排到2020年以后，但不得晚于2021年夏天”。为了争取申办成功，安倍晋三曾付出艰辛的努力。

 

“The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present,” the statement said. “Therefore, it was agreed that the Olympic flame will stay in Japan. It was also agreed that the Games will keep the name Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.”

声明称：“双方一致认为，在这个困难时期，东京奥运会可以成为世界的希望灯塔，奥林匹克圣火可能成为当今世界所处困境的希望之光，因此奥林匹克圣火将继续保留在日本。双方还同意，本届赛事的名称依旧为‘东京2020年奥运会和残奥会’。”

 

 

 

Japan appears to have successfully slowed the spread of the respiratory virus on home soil so far, with just 1,140 diagnosed cases as of Tuesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

根据约翰霍普金斯大学系统科学与工程中心汇编的数据，目前日本似乎已经成功地减缓了新冠病毒在本土的传播，截至本周二（3月24日），日本确诊病例仅有1140例。

 

But as the health crisis deepens in other parts of the world, including Europe and North America, a growing number of Olympic teams and athletes called on organizers to delay or cancel the 2020 Summer Olympics.

但随着欧洲和北美等世界其他地区的健康危机加剧，越来越多的奥运代表团和运动员呼吁组织者推迟或取消2020年夏季奥运会。

 

Canada was the first country to announce it would not be sending athletes to this year's Olympics due to risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic. The Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee called on organizers to delay the Games for one year.

由于担心新冠肺炎疫情带来的风险，加拿大成为第一个宣布将不派运动员参加今年奥运会的国家。加拿大奥委会和加拿大残奥委会呼吁组织者将奥运会推迟一年。

 

“While we recognize the inherent complexities around a postponement, nothing is more important than the health and safety of our athletes and the world community,” the committees said in a joint statement Sunday. “This is not solely about athlete health - it is about public health.”

加拿大奥委会和加拿大残奥委会在上周日（3月22日）的一份联合声明中表示：“虽然我们认识到延期的内在复杂性，但没有什么比我们的运动员以及国际社会的健康与安全更重要。这不仅仅关乎运动员的健康——还关乎公共健康。”

 

Australia followed suit. After deciding unanimously not to send a team, the Australian Olympic Committee said in a statement that “our athletes now need to prioritize their own health and of those around them, and to be able to return to the families.”

澳大利亚紧随其后。在一致决定不派出代表团之后，澳大利亚奥委会在一份声明中表示：“我们的运动员现在需要优先考虑自己和周围人的健康，并能够回到家人身边。”

 

Australian Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll said athletes should prepare for the Tokyo Games in 2021.

澳大利亚奥委会首席执行官马特·卡罗尔说，运动员应该为2021年举办的东京奥运会做准备。

 

“The athletes desperately want to go to the games,” Carroll told reporters in Sydney on Monday, “but they also take onboard their own personal health.”

卡罗尔于本周一（3月23日）在悉尼接受记者采访时说：“运动员们都非常想参加奥运会，但他们也很重视自己的身体健康。”

 

“We need to give our athletes that certainty,” he added, “and that’s what we’ve done.”

他补充道：“我们需要给我们的运动员确定的消息，这就是我们所做的。”