Abe: Japan, IOC decide to postpone 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach agreed on Tuesday to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until no later than the summer of 2021, NHK reported. 

"I proposed to postpone for about a year and president Bach responded with 100-percent agreement," Shinzo Abe told reporters. 

Abe said he had secured agreement from the head of the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Games and then hold them "in a complete form as a testament to mankind's defeat of the new virus."

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