IOC president quickly corrects slip up in Olympic pep talk

Thomas Bach tripped over his words while addressing his Japanese hosts, referring to the “Chinese people” rather than “Japanese people” as he spoke.

IOC President Thomas Bach appeared in public on July 13 for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week with the pandemic-postponed Olympics opening in just 10 days. Mr. Bach spent his first three days in isolation at the International Olympic Committee’s five-star hotel in central Tokyo, and his movements in Tokyo are limited — like almost everyone entering the city for the Olympics — for the first 14 days. His first stop was the headquarters of the organising committee to deliver a pep talk with the beleaguered games set to go ahead without fans in almost all venues.