Newsflash: New dates set for Tokyo Olympic Games By Craig Ray
The 2020 Olympic Games will take place between 23 July and 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee confirmed on Monday, following a meeting with the Japanese Olympic Organising committee. The Paralympics will start on 24 August 2021.
The International Amateur Athletics Federation smoothed the IOC’s passage by expressing its willingness to move the dates of its flagship event, the 2021 World Athletics Championships. Japan has spent over $13-billion readying Tokyo for the Olympics. It is still going to require extreme cooperation and juggling of logistics such as sorting out the pre-sold apartments built for the 2020 Olympics Athletes’ Village. Most of those apartments have been sold on to Tokyo residents and businesses, and new owners were set to take occupation in September 2020.
“I want to thank the International Federations for their unanimous support and the Continental Associations of National Olympic Committees for the great partnership and their support in the consultation process over the last few days,” IOC president Thomas Bach said in a statement. The president of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, Mori Yoshirō, said: “IOC President Thomas Bach and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee held a conference call today to discuss in detail the revised dates of the Tokyo 2020 Games.
“In terms of transport, arranging volunteers and the provision of tickets for those in Japan and overseas, as well as allowing for the Covid-19 situation, we think that it would be better to reschedule the Games to one year later than planned, in the summer of 2021.
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