Justin Setterfield/Getty ImagesBY: LEIGHTON SCHNEIDER, ABC NEWS
(TOKYO) — There will be no foreign fans at the Tokyo Olympics this summer after Japan decided to not allow overseas’s spectators entry into the country, according to a press release from Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee.
The decision was announced on Saturday following a virtual meeting between the International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Organising Committee Tokyo 2020, and the government of Japan. The Japanese parties cited the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic across the world, the emergence of new variants of the virus, and restricted international travel as the reasoning.
“In order