The IOC held a board meeting in Tokyo on January 1 and received a report on the preparation status of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Among them, the IOC's working group, which is considering medical measures from the viewpoint of heat treatment, has already announced that the organizing committee has announced the revision of the start time, in addition to the onshore marathon and race, I proposed to change to a time zone in which the influence of heat is less even for some events of rugby and bicycle.

Time zone changes were proposed not only for marathons and competitions, track events of more than 5000 meters on land, 7-person rugby, and bicycle BMX and mountain biking.

According to the stakeholders, in addition to changing the time so that the marathon and race will be able to start by 6:00 am, at least 5000 meters of track events and rugby and bicycles, games will be played around noon It was requested that it should not be done.

After the Board of Directors, IOC's President Bach, who was in attendance at the press conference, said, "Changing the time has various implications related to audiences, etc. All stakeholders and experts discuss We will talk about it and show the prospect that concrete discussions will be held at the meeting with the organizing committee to be held next week.