Is Tokyo Olympic & Paralympic 2021 Going Ahead? Latest Updates about Olympics from Japan

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0:23 Is Tokyo Olympics 2021 Going Ahead?
1:00 How Tokyo Olympics was postponed due to the Pandemic
2:15 How Japanese people think about Tokyo Olympic 2021?
3:20 Latest updates of Tokyo Olympic
Is Tokyo Olympics 2021 Going Ahead?
The answer is YES. May 21th 2021.

Lets go through how Tokyo Olympic was decided to Postpone to 2021 summer.

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January 2020, and a pandemic on 11th March 2020.

March 24th 2020.
Prime Minister Abe and IOC President Bach held a telephone conversation and agree to extend the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics by about a year and hold them by next summer.

March 30th 2020, IOC decides on a postponement date for the Games at the extraordinary board meeting.
The Olympic Games will start on July 23, 2021 for 17 days.
The Paralympics will start on August 24, 2021 for 13 days.
When asked what to do with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the most common answer was "cancelled" at 43%, "postponed again" at 40%, and "held this summer" at 14%. Compared to the April survey, the number of "cancellations" increased significantly, and "this summer" was halved.
Survey by Asashi Newspaper.

Initially, it was expected that there would be more than 200,000 athletes and related persons visiting Japan from overseas at the Tokyo Games, but adjustments have been made to reduce the number to about 94,000, which is less than half, in order to thoroughly implement infection control measures.

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