Video shows the Olympics committee chief accidentally calling Japanese people Chinese, before quickly correcting himself

• Thomas Bach gave a conference Tuesday on the coming Tokyo Games.
• He was promising safe games for Japanese citizens but instead called them "Chinese people."
• He quickly corrected himself. Watch the video below.

The president of the International Olympic Committee accidentally referred to Japanese citizens as Chinese at a Tuesday press conference.

Thomas Bach made the slip and corrected himself quickly while promising safety and security at the coming Tokyo Games.

Watch it here:

"Our common target is safe and secure games for everybody - for the athletes, for all the delegations, and most importantly also for the Chinese people, Japanese people," Bach said.

It's not clear what prompted Bach's mistake. The Winter Olympics are due to take place in Beijing in February.

The Tokyo Games, which are due to start July 23, have been disrupted heavily by the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this month authorities decided to bar spectators from nearly all venues amid a rise in infections in the Japanese capital.