The inevitable has grow to be official: The 2020 Summer season Olympics have been postponed.
The Summer season Video games in Toyko, Japan, grew to become the most recent main sporting occasion to really feel the impact of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, because the Worldwide Olympic Committee on Tuesday introduced the Video games have been postponed till 2021.
The official joint assertion from the IOC and the Toyko 2020 Organizing Committee cited a current announcement from the World Well being Group indicating the unfold of COVID-19 is accelerating, as there at the moment are practically 400,000 worldwide instances, and it seems issues are solely going to worsen earlier than they lastly begin enhancing.
It’s nonetheless too early to say when the Olympics might be rescheduled for, however the assertion Tuesday indicated the rescheduled occasion might be “past 2020 however not later than summer season 2021, to safeguard the well being of the athletes, all people concerned within the Olympic Video games and the worldwide group.”
