Tokyo Olympics will be closed to fans from abroad, hints Games organiser

• Situation is tough,' says committee president
• Japanese press report decision has been made

The new president of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee has hinted that foreign fans will not be allowed at this summer's Games amid reports in the Japanese press that a decision had already been made to exclude them.

If the situation is tough and it would make the [Japanese] consumers concerned, that is a situation we need to avoid from happening," the committee president, Seiko Hashimoto, told reporters after online talks with the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach.