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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] At the time, spectators had no games to watch and players no games ...
Temperature check and COVID-19 countermeasures at the tennis venue. The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic was a concern for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place at the end of July 2021. Due to the Olympics, the Japanese government took extra precautions to help control the country's ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks.
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]
The IOC has maintained, for months, that the 2020 Olympics will not be affected by the coronavirus. That changed on Sunday. Coronavirus: Postponing 2020 Olympics an option, says IOC president
The head organizer of the Tokyo Olympics said the Games may still be cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.
A senior Japanese ruling party official said on Thursday that cancelling this year's Olympics in Tokyo remains an option if the coronavirus crisis becomes too dire. The Tokyo Olympics Organising ...
Contains articles relating to sports events which were suspended/delayed but later played to a conclusion due to the COVID-19 pandemic – also applies to current affected events which awaited a decision on an outcome at the time of categorisation.
The 2020 Summer Olympics, [c] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad [d] and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, [e] were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.