Mov­ing the of­fice of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) from the premis­es of 121 Aber­crom­by Street in Port-of-Spain is in­evitable but pres­i­dent Bri­an Lewis and his staff are tak­ing it in stride.

The own­ers are in the process of sell­ing the prop­er­ty.

How­ev­er, the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion of hav­ing to re­lo­cate ac­cord­ing to Lewis, has not ham­pered the prepa­ra­tion for the up­com­ing Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan.

The pre­mier sport­ing event was orig­i­nal­ly set to take place last year but was post­poned due to the on­go­ing coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic and is now sched­uled to un­fold from Ju­ly 23 to Au­gust 8.

"We are hop­ing that, re­gard­less what hap­pens we hope to be here un­til af­ter the Olympics. We al­so have plans for the cel­e­bra­tion to com­mem­o­rate the 75th an­niver­sary of the TTOC", Lewis told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Fri­day.

He said, "I want to make it clear, we are not be­ing forced out. We have a good land­lord and over the past 10 years that we have been here, we've made an ef­fort to be a good ten­ant. We hope we are giv­en ap­pro­pri­ate con­sid­er­a­tion.

"We are not wor­ried."

Lewis added that the work­ing com­mit­tee at the TTOC has not al­lowed the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic to throw the or­gan­i­sa­tion off, say­ing: "Sup­port­ing the ath­letes re­main our main fo­cus. Zone out the dis­trac­tions and not let the un­con­trol­lable dis­tract you. It's about piv­ot­ing and not be­ing dis­cour­aged and be­come dis­en­chant­ed.

Lewis ex­plained that, "Since 2013 when I came in as pres­i­dent, our pri­or­i­ty was that the TTOC ought to have its own home. How­ev­er, the re­sources at the TTOC, is not in­fi­nite. The fo­cus has al­ways been on the ath­letes, this is why most of our fundrais­ing has been ath­lete-cen­tred like the Ath­lete Wel­fare and Prepa­ra­tion Fund (which was es­tab­lished in 2015) and bonus­es."

"Noth­ing hap­pens be­fore its time," said Lewis, whose com­mit­tee's sup­port for the na­tion­al ath­letes has re­mained rigid dur­ing the pan­dem­ic.

He point­ed that, "We got good news with the in­tro­duc­tion of vac­cines. Now with the new vari­ant of the COVID, there is un­cer­tain­ty but we are stay­ing fo­cused."

Lewis, who is al­so pres­i­dent of the Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (CANOC) said now it's about tap­ping in­to its fundrais­ing abil­i­ty and "not be­ing afraid or fear­ful of the move to­ward the com­mit­tee own­ing its own home".