A top Florida official is actually lobbying the International Olympic Committee into moving the upcoming Games to his state should they be canceled in Tokyo.
Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer, wrote to the IOC on Monday asking for the organization to relocate the 2021 Games — which were already postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — to Florida should they be canceled or postponed again.
He cited a recent report that Japanese officials had already determined to cancel the Games completely due to the coronavirus, even though the IOC completely denied the accuracy of that report.