New Dates for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
March 30, 2020 The Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23, 2021, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced. The Games were to start run July 24–August 9, 2020. The IOC and Japan had earlier postponed the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, in the wake of the worldwide struggles with the coronavirus COVID-19. The World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic. Confirmed cases around the world number in the hundreds of thousands, and deaths related to the virus have soared in recent weeks. The new dates for the Olympics are July 24–August 8, 2021. The new dates for the Paralympic Games are August 24–September 5, 2021. In both cases, they will still be called the 2020 Olympic Games. More than 6,000 athletes, comprising about 57 percent of the available slots, had already qualified for the Olympics, and other qualification events had been scheduled for the next few months. All athletes who have already qualified still have that status. Organizers reported having sold more than 5 million of the available 7.8 million tickets. People who have already bought tickets will be offered tickets to next year's Games, officials said; alternately, ticketholders can also obtain refunds. Also postponed was the Olympic Torch relay. The Flame has been lit but will stay in Fukushima. |
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