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On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee and local organizers of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo announced that the Summer Olympics to be held on July 24, 2020, has been postponed due to the breakout of the epidemic COVID-19. The 2020 Tokyo Games will be the first in its history to be delayed to another year. “In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the [World Health Organization] today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community,” according to a joint statement from the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee. “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. Therefore, it was agreed that the Olympic flame will stay in Japan. It was also agreed that the Games will keep the name Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.” they added. The organizers of the event have yet to decide the final date for the games to re-open.
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