The Tokyo Olympics have officially been postponed until 2021
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will reportedly be postponed. Photo: Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics will not take place this summer, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday. The Games will instead take place in the summer of 2021.
In announcing the decision, Abe said he had asked Thomas Bach, president of the I.O.C., for a one-year delay and he had “agreed 100 percent.” I.O.C. leader have acknowledged the disruption but said that a delay was the only way to ensure that athletes could train safely and the more than $10 billion the Japan has spent to prepare for the Olympics during the past seven years would not go to waste.
On Sunday, the IOC indicated for the first time that the postponement of the games was on the table. A press release posted on Tokyo2020.org said:
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