Tokyo 2020 to Take Place in 2021

Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, and Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), have announced that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo are to be rescheduled.

While the new dates have not yet been set, the two leaders confirmed that Tokyo 2020 will not take place this year but that it will still take place in Japan, and that the Games will happen no later than summer 2021.

The two parties have agreed that the Games will keep the name Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.

The decision, they say, has been made "to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community" and that "the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present".

Japan is expected to soon ban any foreign visitors from entering the country if they have been to Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Iran, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the Vatican within 14 days of arriving in Japan. It is also reported that it will extend the suspension of visas to Chinese and Korean travellers.

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