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Daily News Daily News · 24/03/2020
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Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021!

Asia coronavirus Japan Olympic Games
Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 but keeps name of Tokyo 2020

Photo: MTI/EPA/Majama Kimimasza

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced here on Tuesday that Japan and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have agreed to postpone the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games by one year.

Abe made the announcement after a teleconference with IOC chief Thomas Bach, putting an end to two months speculation of the future of the Games since the outbreak of coronavirus in late January.

“I proposed to Mr Bach that we postpone the Games for a year. He 100 per cent agrees with me,” Abe said in a statement.

He added,

“This will make it possible for athletes to play in the best condition, and will make the event a safe and secure one for spectators.”

Also attending the teleconference were Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori and Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto.

In the IOC’s side, Bach was joined by John Coates, the Chair of the IOC Coordination Commission, IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper and the IOC Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi.

  • Olympic flame lit for Tokyo 2020 in Games’ birthplace

The IOC said later in a statement that the meeting was “very friendly and constructive” and the two leaders expressed their shared concern about the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

The IOC statement reads,

“The Tokyo Olympics must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021.”

The two sides agreed that “the Olympic flame will stay in Japan. It was also agreed that the Games will keep the name Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.”

Source: Xinhua

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  1. ISTVAN KIRALY says:
    24/03/2020 at 15:15

    Sense finally prevails !

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