I.O.C. and Japan Agree to Postpone Tokyo Olympics
I.O.C. and Japan Agree to Postpone Tokyo Olympics I.O.C. and Japan Agree to Postpone Tokyo Olympics TOKYO — After months of internal discussions and mounting pressure from nations and athletes across the world, the International Olympic Committee will postpone the Tokyo Games that had been scheduled to begin in late July, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan said Tuesday. The Games, the world’s largest sporting event, will instead take place in the summer of 2021, a change that will likely wreak havoc with sports schedules but should bring great relief to the athletes, organizers and health officials who pressed for a delay and complained that the I.O.C. was not moving quickly enough to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision became inevitable after the national Olympic committee in Canada announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing from the Games, and Australia ’s committee told its athletes that it was not possible to train for this summer under the widesp