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Worldwide Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams mentioned masks on the Olympic podium are “not a pleasant to have, it is a will need to have,” in response to Reuters.

In an interview off-camera responding to a reporter asking whether or not masks guidelines had been relaxed, Adams mentioned, “There isn’t a leisure, and we’d urge and ask everybody to obey the foundations, no matter stakeholder you might be, us, the IOC, media, athletes, everybody. It is not a pleasant to have, it is a will need to have.”

Adams urged everybody to comply with the foundations of the playbook, including, “It’s actually in our personal curiosity and the curiosity of everybody and within the curiosity of a protected and safe Video games that we do obey these guidelines.”

The Tokyo 2020 Playbook says masks ought to be worn always besides when consuming, ingesting, coaching, competing, or sleeping.