"Still up in the air" - Jamie Murray on Olmypics participation

The Olympic games are set to start in 9 weeks after being moved a whole year due to the pandemic.

The certainty of the games is not in question yet many people are suspicious of the whole thing will go. The pandemic is still raging throughout the world including Japan with vaccination rates still low. Jamie Murray, who represented Great Britain at three Olympics said:

"There is still an element of doubt whether it will go ahead full stop. We have the French Open coming up 10 days from now, then we go straight to the grass season, which is always a really important part of the season for the British players."

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The support for the Olympics going ahead in Japan is at an all-time low with polls showing that 70 % of the population do not want them to go ahead. The IOC is holding firm saying they will go ahead. For Murray it's not a safety issue as he said:

"We have been travelling the world since August last year, we have been living in bubbles from week to week and our lives have either been at the tennis courts or at the hotel, nothing outside of that. So it is a pretty sterile environment that we have been living in and I imagine the Olympics would be under the same conditions. So I don't feel it is an issue for me to go there for my health or anything - I am not really concerned about that."