lausanne banning fans from the tokyo olympics is clearly something we dont want international olympic committee chief thomas bach said adding that multiple scenarios were under consideration for the rescheduled gamesbach said safety was the top concern for organisers of the tokyo olympics which were due to start next week but have been postponed for a year over the covid19 pandemicbut he clearly signalled his reluctance to hold the games at empty stadiums now a common sight in sport as other competitions make a tentative return from virusenforced shutdownsolympic games behind closed doors is clearly something we do not want the ioc president told reporters in a video callso we are working for a solution of the olympic games which on one hand is safeguarding the health of all the participants and on the other hand is also reflecting the olympic spiritbach and japanese prime minister shinzo abe have both warned that it would be hard to postpone the games beyond 2021 raising the nightmare scenario of the first olympics to be cancelled in peace timethe first priority is about the safety of all participants of the olympic games said bachfor this reason we are working now on multiple scenarios of the organisation of the games with regard to the health situation of which we do not know how it will be in one year from nowtokyo governor yuriko koike last month told afp she would make a 120 percent effort for the games to go ahead pledging the olympics would be safe despite the pandemicon wednesday tokyo moved its coronavirus alert to red the highest level after a resurgence of cases in japans capital