Toshiro Muto has spoken cautiously ever since the coronavirus pandemic caused the postponement and had little to say Friday about any progress.

Simone Biles is back training for the Tokyo Games in 2021, but admits she might step away from gymnastics if they can’t be held next summer.

Pushing the Tokyo Games past 2021 is not an option, according to Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

About $650 million will go to cover expenses associated with rescheduling, with $150 million to help with cash-flow shortages of sport federations and national organizing committees.

An Associated Press survey finds 36 of 44 national governing bodies for individual sports received federal funding to keep going during the pandemic.

A series of regional events in August before a national lineup of meets kicks off in early November will lead up to the Olympic trials and the Tokyo Games next summer.,

Even IOC President Thomas Bach says there is “no blueprint” in assembling what he called this “huge jigsaw puzzle” of rescheduling the Tokyo Games.