Tokyo Olympic organisers plan to follow roughly the same schedule, delayed by a year, for the nationwide torch relay preceeding the postponed summer Games, according to reports on Thurdsday. The Tokyo Olympics are now scheduled to run from July 23 to Aug. 8, 2021. This is the first time that the Summer Olympic Games have been postponed rather than cancelled. This will be the second time that Japan — and specifically Tokyo — are hosting the Summer Olympics, the first being in 1964. This makes it the first city in Asia to host the Summer Games twice.

Source: dna August 20, 2020 08:03 UTC