IOC postponed the Tokyo Olympics to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed more than 27,000 lives thus far across the world.
2020 Tokyo Olympics Organising Committee chief Yoshiro Mori said on Saturday that the new dates for the postponed Olympic Games could be decided by the end of next week.
World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka said that the athletes who are serving doping bans can participate in the postponed Tokyo Olympics
The new date for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be decided at the earliest possible in the next three weeks and the Olympic quotas that were already allocated will still be valid,
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Tuesday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be postponed by up to one year due to the worldwide coronavirus epidemic.
Turkish Boxing Federation revealed two fighters and a coach who took part in a Tokyo 2020 qualifying event in London earlier this month had since tested positive for COVID-19.
Bindra, who is India's lone individual gold medallist, said that the athletes around the world were overwhelmingly in favour of the postponement of the Games, which was duly conveyed to the IOC.
The IOC and the Tokyo 2020 organising committee announced in a joint statement that the Olympics has been postponed so as to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
In an unprecedented move, the 2020 Tokyo Games was on Tuesday pushed to next year due to COVID-19 pandemic that is wreaked havoc on the world.
Speaking to journalists, Bach said the postponed Tokyo Olympics could be held in the spring of 2021.
Bach spoke to about 400 reporters on a conference call and was quizzed why, despite growing concern from athletes, it took so long to postpone the Tokyo Games.
The Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei put the added cost at $2.7 billion, citing an estimate from local organizers.
There have been growing calls for freezing the world rankings with Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth, Parupalli Kashyap and H S Prannoy expressing their concern.
The BWF had suspended all HSBC BWF World Tour events post the All England Championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic and there were calls for the extension of the Olympic qualification period which falls on April 28.
On Tuesday evening, IOC and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) decided to postpone the Olympics by a year owing to the rapid rise in coronavirus cases across the world
Bach said that in his telephonic conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, the pair agreed that it won't be possible to hold the Olympics this year due to the relentless spread of the coronavirus pandemic
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) had tried to rope in Canadian Dejan Papic last year but things did not work out as the latter decided to undergo a knee surgery when he was expected to join the squad.
The deadly COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented postponement as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Japanese government and the athletes world over agreed that Olympics in July-August this year could not have gone ahead in the present circumstances.
The Indian men's and women's hockey team captains expressed their disappointment but vowed to continue to stay committed to their goals.
PCI President Deepa Malik had earlier said that "health of the athletes will always be our top priority".
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