A day after officially postponing the Tokyo Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach invoked comments by President Donald Trump to defend himself from criticism on Wednesday.
Bach spoke to about 400 reporters on a conference call and was quizzed why, despite growing concern from athletes, it took so long to postpone the Tokyo Games. He noted that many governments have imposed social limits only into next month and pointed to Trump's hope of easing restrictions by mid-April.
"In the last couple of weeks the measures of many governments, they were limited until middle of April, some beginning of May," the International Olympic Committee president said.
"You have maybe seen the latest declarations there in the United States from President Trump about the prospect of middle of April there being able to lift many restrictions."
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