The Summer Olympics in Tokyo set new dates for 2021 after being postponed last week amid the coronavirus pandemic. Details:
The Summer Olympics in Tokyo have new dates for 2021 after organizers last week postponed the international sporting recent last week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Olympic Committee last week took the unprecedented step of pushing back the world's biggest sporting event that has been a fixture on the sporting calendar for more than a century. The Tokyo Games, slated for 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries and at a reported cost of $28 billion, had been scheduled to start July 24. When unveiling the delay, organizers said that new dates were yet to be determined.
The Summer Games will still be called the 2020 Olympics — a symbolic gesture that the IOC said last week would allow the event to "stand as a beacon of hope."
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