UPDATE: Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee has stated that the Tokyo Olympics will be happening in 2021. “It will take place with or without COVID,” IOC Vice President John Coates told Agence France-Presse on Monday, Sept. 7, via Deadline. “The games will start July 23 next year.”
Coates also said that next year’s Olympics will be called the “Games that conquered COVID.”
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The new dates for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo have just been revealed.
After getting postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the Games have been rescheduled to open on July 23, 2021 and close on August 8, 2021. The Paralympic Games will also run from August 24, 2021 through September 5, 2021. Organizers agreed on the new dates during a telephone conference on Monday.
According to a press release shared by the International Olympic Committee, the decision was made based on three main considerations: protecting the health of the athletes and everyone involved in the event and supporting the containment of the coronavirus, safeguarding the interests of the athletes and of the Olympic sport, fitting into the global international sports calendar.