Tokyo Olympics ‘moving fully ahead’ as protester disrupts press conference

  • Games ‘in implementation phase’ despite state of emergency
  • IOC briefing curtailed after shout of ‘No Olympics anywhere’

The International Olympic Committee has insisted it is “moving fully ahead” with the Tokyo Games despite growing public unease in Japan after the state of emergency in the country was extended.

But the IOC’s upbeat comments, which followed a meeting of its executive board on Wednesday, were overshadowed by a protester who gatecrashed its online press conference to shout: “No Olympics anywhere. Fuck the Olympics. We don’t want the Olympics. No Olympics in LA. No Olympics in Tokyo.”

Here is the video of an anti-Olympics protester ‘David O’Brien from Yahoo’ telling the IOC ‘No Olympics anywhere, fuck the Olympics’. It has since been pulled pic.twitter.com/eRLnTjrTxo

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