Japan's Olympic Committee president has just said that they have reached the stage where they will have to consider postponing this year's Olympics.

In Tokyo, pressure has been mounting to delay the games with Canada and Australia announcing they won't be sending teams to the Games in July.

The president of world athletics, Sebastian Coe, has also called for the Olympics to be pushed back.

Well, let's hear now from the sports correspondent Katy Shannon, Katie.

A lot of pressure to get some clarity on the Olympics.

Yes, so what?

We're hearing GT's overnight, the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Arbet, has said For the first time, there is a chance that the Olympics will be postponed.

Up until now, our bay has been determined.

The games should continue.

Now all athletes of the world are starting to say they simply don't want to go.

The international committee might now have no option.

Also, overnight, Canada became the first major country to withdraw.

The country's Olympic and Paralympic Committee also urgently called on the IOC International Paralympic Committee on the World Health Organization to postpone the gangs for a year.

The Australian Olympic Committee has said in Australian team could not be assembled in the changing circumstances and they told their athletes to prepare for a 2021 games.

Meanwhile, world Athletics president Lord Coe has sent a letter to his IOC counterpart Thomas Bark, requesting the games be moved from July.

Co said in the letter that an Olympic Games in July this year is neither feasible nor desirable when in Japan a recent opinion poll showed that 69% off Japanese people think that the games should be postponed as well by a year.

But of course there's huge resistance to canceling the games altogether.

But Gate of the Olympics should be a time of celebration, but at the moment the future still remains uncertain.

Back to you, Katie Shannon.

Many thanks.