The International Olympic Committee declared the Games that have been moved to 2021 will still be called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and it's about more than just previously-distributed promotional material.
Not long after the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics were officially postponed until 2021, folks began using social media to say the brand needed to be corrected. Facebook and Twitter users said Olympic organizers must change the official logo and slogan to Tokyo 2021.
"The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present," the IOC said."Therefore, it was agreed that the Olympic flame will stay in Japan.People pass an advert for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on March 25, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
Now, the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be held in the summer of 2021, about 8-9 months prior to the 2022 Beijing WInter Olympics.
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