The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will be postponed due tothe global coronavirus crisis, a veteran member of the International OlympicCommittee announced Monday.
International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said Mondaythat the games were likely to be pushed to 2021, according to USA Today."On thebasis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided," Poundsaid, according to USA Today.
"The parameters goingforward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July24, that much I know."Pound, one of the most influential members of the IOC fordecades, offered the first real confirmation that the governing body woulddelay the games as a growing number of athletes and organizations around theworld called for postponing the competition until the pandemic subsides."Itwill come in stages," he told USA Today.
"We will postpone this and begin to deal with all theramifications of moving this, which are immense."
