Tokyo Olympics to be delayed into 2021

By Sakura Murakami and Karolos Grohmann
Updated March 25 2020 - 2:03am, first published 1:57am
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the Tokyo Olympics will be postponed for a year.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the Tokyo Olympics will be postponed for a year.

The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to 2021, the first such delay in the Games' 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked the last international sporting showpiece still standing this year.

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