{"id":2456222,"date":"2020-03-24T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323184"},"modified":"2020-03-24T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:34:12","slug":"tokyo-olympics-officially-postponed-until-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/tokyo-olympics-officially-postponed-until-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics officially postponed until 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.2416666666667\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-323184-415\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AP20084290552326-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AP20084290552326-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong | The Olympic Flame burns during a ceremony in Fukushima City, Japan, Tuesday, March 24, 2020.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>The Olympic Flame burns during a ceremony in Fukushima City, Japan, Tuesday, March 24, 2020.<\/strong><br \/>AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AP20084290552326-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"The Olympic Flame burns during a ceremony in Fukushima City, Japan, Tuesday, March 24, 2020.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AP20084233418076-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AP20084233418076-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"AP Photo\/Eugene Hoshiko | The Olympic rings is seen at Tokyo's Odaiba district Tuesday, March 24, 2020.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>The Olympic rings is seen at Tokyo&#8217;s Odaiba district Tuesday, March 24, 2020.<\/strong><br \/>AP Photo\/Eugene Hoshiko<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AP20084233418076-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"The Olympic rings is seen at Tokyo's Odaiba district Tuesday, March 24, 2020.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/tokyo-olympics-officially-postponed-until-2021\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/tokyo-olympics-officially-postponed-until-2021\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 The Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation that the games could not go ahead as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee made the decision after speaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC said the games will be held \u201cnot later than summer 2021\u201d but they will still be called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community,\u201d the IOC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote p402_hide\" readability=\"3\">\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>\u201c\u2026 the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community\u201d \u2013 IOC statement<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Before the official announcement, Abe said Bach had agreed with his proposal for a one-year postponement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Bach said he will agree \u2018100%,\u2019 and we agreed to hold the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in the summer of 2021 at the latest,\u201d Abe said, saying holding the games next year would be \u201cproof of a victory by human beings against the coronavirus infections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision came only a few hours after local organizers said the torch relay would start as planned on Thursday. Those plans also changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the time being, the flame will be stored and displayed in Fukushima,\u201d organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics have never before been postponed, and have only ever previously been canceled in wartime.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC and Tokyo organizers said they hope the decision to postpone will help the world heal from the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present,\u201d the IOC statement said. \u201cTherefore, it was agreed that the Olympic flame will stay in Japan. It was also agreed that the Games will keep the name Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/tokyo-olympics-officially-postponed-until-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Flame burns during a ceremony in Fukushima City, Japan, Tuesday, March 24, 2020.AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong The Olympic rings is seen at Tokyo&#8217;s Odaiba district Tuesday, March 24, 2020.AP Photo\/Eugene Hoshiko Show CaptionsHide Captions TOKYO \u2014 The Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation that the games could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 08:22:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}