rome japanese tennis star naomi osaka has said she is not really sure the delayed tokyo olympics should go ahead as the city battles a surge of coronavirus cases less than three months before the start of the gamesa virus state of emergency in the japanese capital and other parts of the country was extended last week as organisers weigh up whether to press ahead in the face of mounting pressure to cancel the global spectaclewhen asked if it was correct to host the games in the middle of a global pandemic the 23yearold reigning us and australian womens champion told the bbc to be honest im not really sure if they should be held as planned from july 23im an athlete and of course my immediate thought is that i want to play in the olympics the fourtime grand slam winner said at the rome wta tournamentbut as a human i would say were in a pandemic and if people arent healthy and if theyre not feeling safe then its definitely a really big cause for concernmore than 10000 athletes from 200 countries and regions are set to travel to tokyo for the games with a decision expected in june on how many domestic fans if any at all can attendive never played an olympic event so its not like i would have anything to compare it to osaka said of the possibility of no spectatorsdespite a smaller death toll than many countries japans vaccine rollout is moving slowly and some areas have seen record cases as more infectious variants drive fresh waves of contagionmore than 300000 people have signed a online petition launched last week titled cancel the tokyo olympics to protect our lives in a bid to sway the government and olympic officials