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The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant disruption [1] to the worldwide sporting calendar since World War II. Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events were cancelled or postponed. [2] [3] [4] The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. [1]
Olympic Games that were scheduled but cancelled, in all cases due to World War I (1916) or World War II (1940 and 1944).. On 24 March 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he and International Olympic Committee's president Thomas Bach had agreed to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics, pending approval by the IOC, due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. [1]
A number of sportspeople eligible for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo stated that they would not attend because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. In the case of tennis, media speculated that some absentees were unenthusiastic about competing in any case and used COVID-19 as a convenient excuse. [1] [2]
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency last week for Tokyo and surrounding areas. Amid the surging virus, he again promised the postponed Tokyo Olympics would be “safe and ...
PARIS (Reuters) -Three years after the Tokyo Olympics were held amid strict precautions and with no fans because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the virus has forced athletes to withdraw from ...
On 1 December 2019, the first known case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel virus caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified in Wuhan, China. The virus has since spread to other parts of mainland China and around the world, becoming the COVID-19 pandemic , one of the deadliest pandemics ...
COVID-19 is no longer treated with the same precaution that surrounded it in 2021 and 2022, during the Tokyo Summer Olympics and Beijing Winter Games. It no longer disrupts entire sports or events.
Contains articles relating to sports events which had never taken place as planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.. For those events which were suspended/delayed but later played to a conclusion, see Category:Sports events postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic (also applies to current affected events which awaited a decision on an outcome or a new schedule of play at the time of categorisation);