Tokyo 2020

#BattleCovid19: 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed

The International Olympic Committee has decided to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC member Dick Pound said on March 23 in a statement. This would mean the Games, scheduled for July 24-Aug 2020, are likely to be held in the summer of 2021. Major sporting nations Australia and Canada withdrew on Monday as organizers came under global pressure to postpone the event for the first time in its 124-year modern history. “That's my conclusion (there will be a postponement),” Pound said in a telephone interview, after Sunday's IOC stateme | Click Here...