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COVID-19: Japan, IOC agree to postpone Olympics by a year

Sambad English Bureau Mar 24, 2020

Tokyo: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been postponed with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saying on Tuesday that he has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold the Games in 2021. "I proposed to postpone…

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Too early to decide fate of Tokyo 2020, says IOC chief

Sambad English Bureau Mar 19, 2020

Beijing: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has stressed it's too early to decide the fate of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. He said that in a teleconference with…