News > Olympics 2020: Around 10,000 volunteers quit fifty days ahead of the opening ceremony

Olympics 2020: Around 10,000 volunteers quit fifty days ahead of the opening ceremony

Around 10,000 of 80,000 planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteers have quit, organisers have revealed as they battle persistent doubts over the Games with just 50 days until the opening ceremony.

Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto ruled out a further postponement of the Games, said cancellation would only happen in catastrophic circumstance such as most delegations not being able to come to Japan who is battling a fourth wave of coronavirus infections.