Tokyo Olympics / Para approved postponement of about one year IOC Extraordinary Board March 24 23:21

Following the worldwide spread of the new coronavirus, the IOC-International Olympic Committee will hold a special board meeting on April 24, postponing the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics by about one year after agreement between President Bach and Prime Minister Abe Has been approved. The Olympics have been suspended for the first time in the past, although five events in summer and winter have been canceled due to wars such as World War II.

With the spread of the new coronavirus on a global scale and the traffic of people around the world being regulated, and competitions on national selection including Olympic qualifying being canceled or postponed one after another, the IOC and the Organizing Committee of the Games decided that I was starting to consider postponing the Olympics and Paralympics.

Under such circumstances, Prime Minister Abe and IOC Chairman Bach held a telephone conference at 8:00 p.m. on the 24th, and agreed to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics by about one year and hold them by the summer of next year.

After the meeting, the IOC convened an extraordinary board meeting in the form of a conference call, approving the terms of the agreement, and the meeting was postponed to next year.

In the Olympics, five tournaments were canceled in summer and winter due to wars such as World War II, but this is the first postponement.