CARL COURTTOKYO, JAPANEmotional
Postponement
A boat sails past the symbol of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Tokyo 2020 on March 25, the day after a joint statement by the
IOC and the Tokyo Organizing Committee announced the Games’
postponement until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic “to
safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic
Games and the international community.Ť This is the ɿrst time the
modern-day Olympics have been canceled or postponed other than
for World Wars, when they were canceled in 1916, 1940 and 1944.