Olympic Games 2020

FILE PHOTO: The Olympic rings are displayed in front of the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Delayed Tokyo Olympics likely to open in July 2021 - media

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a delay of about one year on Tuesday after a call with IOC President Thomas Bach. It is the first postponement in the 124-year history of the modern Olympics,...

A 3D printed Olympics logo is seen in front of displayed "Tokyo 2021" words in this illustration taken March 24, 2020. Reuters
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In coronavirus-hit world, sponsors to stand by delayed Olympics

A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past walk past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum in Tokyo, Japan March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Japan asks for Olympics postponement

FILE PHOTO: Passengers wearing protective face masks, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, are seen near a campaign banner for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at New Chitose Airport in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
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Tokyo 2020 postponement decision 'within days', say sources

FILE PHOTO: Fake blood in seen in test tubes labelled with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in front of a displayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo in this illustration taken March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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Canada, Australia withdraw from Tokyo 2020 as organizers ponder postponement

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum in Tokyo, Japan March 13, 2020. Reuters
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Players' body urges IOC to review Games plans during coronavirus crisis

FILE PHOTO: Japanese finance minister Taro Aso takes questions at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, US, Oct. 18, 2019. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File Photo
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40-year cycle: Top Japan minister calls 2020 the 'cursed Olympics'

FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, are seen in front of the Giant Olympic rings at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo, Japan, February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
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Tokyo Olympics will go ahead, says Japan's PM Shinzo Abe

A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past walk past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum in Tokyo, Japan March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Japan's economic policymakers now factoring in Olympics cancellation, sources say

Students of Ariake-nishi Gakuen School wear protective face masks, following the outbreak of the coronavirus, as they wave to a para-athlete Chiaki Takada and Mascot Someity after an event Six Months to go until Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, February 25, 2020/ Reuters
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A growing sense of angst over virus-hit Olympic Games

Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) attends a news conference after an Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 4, 2020/ Reuters
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Tokyo 2020: IOC president says no cancellation talk at board meeting

Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gives a statement after an Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 3, 2020. Reuters
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IOC confident of Tokyo Games success despite coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: The Olympic torch of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is displayed at a Torch Relay event to mark the 300-day milestone to the starting date of the torch relay, in Tokyo, Japan June 1, 2019. Reuters
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Tokyo torchlighting ceremony hit by coronavirus measures