TOKYO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 08th August, 2021) President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach said at a press conference on Sunday that the Summer Olympics in Tokyo was held successfully despite all the difficulties and challenges.�
He stressed that the games had not resulted in a spike of new COVID-19 cases in Japan. Bach said that 0.02 percent of the games' participants had tested positive for the coronavirus, which from his point of view is a very low figure.
The IOC president added that the athletes from 93 countries had won Olympic medals this year, more than at any of the previous Olympic Games.
