- The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics have been postponed to next year, just as reports said earlier this week.
- Mounting fears over the coronavirus pandemic have prompted the International Olympic Committee and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to officially announce the delay.
- The Olympics will take place no later than summer 2021, although actual dates have not been announced.
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The coronavirus pandemic just claimed another huge victim: the 2020 Summer Olympics that were set to take place in Tokyo, Japan this summer between July 24th and August 9th. The decision is now official after an insider revealed earlier this week that the Games would be postponed over mounting coronavirus concerns. The decision is now formal, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government have agreed to delay the Games by approximately one year.
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