The head of the footballing governing body in a country hard hit by the pandemic asked the IOC president to delay the Games
The head of the Spanish Football Association (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, has joined the voices asking for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 in the light of the coronavirus crisis.
The International Olympic Committee has not agreed to postpone the Olympics, due to take place this summer in Tokyo, despite almost all other sports being either cancelled or postponed in the midst of the pandemic.
Spain is under a strict lockdown at the moment in an effort to stop the spread of the virus and football is suspended in the country; something Rubiales asked IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch to do with the Olympics.