Breaking: 2020 Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year amidst spread of Coronavirus!

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics scheduled between the 24th of July and 9th of August August has been postponed by at least a year with the growing spread of Coronavirus Pandemic.

According to a statement released by Japan’s Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe, the country reached out to the International Olympics Committee and requested that the games be postponed by a year.

 

In the words of the Japan’s Prime Minister: ” I proposed to postpone for about a year and [IOC] president Thomas Bach responded with 100% agreement,” the Prime Minister said.

Furthermore, the local organising committee also out out a joint statement:

“The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating.

“On Monday, the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the Covid-19 pandemic is ‘accelerating’.

“There are more than 375,000 cases now recorded worldwide and in nearly every country, and their number is growing by the hour.

“In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today [Tuesday], the IOC president and the prime minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.”