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The Tokyo Olympics are to be postponed until 2021 after talks between Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach.
Abe said they had established that cancelling the Games was out of the question, and that Bach had agreed “100%” that a postponement was the most appropriate response to the global disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Written by Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/24/tokyo-olympics-to-be-postponed-to-2021-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic under the title “Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
