Tokyo 2020: the Olympic Games slide in the summer of 2021

The IOC "100% agrees" to the proposal to move the Tokyo Games to the summer of 2021 for the coronavirus emergency. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said this after a phone call with IOC president Thomas Bach, according to reports from Japanese public television NHK.

The Olympics postponed to 2021 will always be called Tokyo 2020 . This was reported by the governor of the Japanese capital. Next year's games "will testify to the defeat of the virus," commented the Japanese premier.

The IOC has made official with a press release the news anticipated by the Japanese premier Abe: "The Games are postponed to 2021, not later than the summer, to safeguard the health of athletes and all participants. They will retain the name of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 '. The Olympic flame will remain in Japan.

"The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the coronavirus epidemic has seen the deterioration of the situation in the rest of the world. Yesterday, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the COVID- pandemic 19 is 'accelerating' " . So in its note the IOC explains the decision to postpone the Games to 2021.

Federica Pellegrini "let's hope physical ..." - "I have to swim another year, I don't want to believe it ...". Federica Pellegrini tries to smile at the news of the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Games. "It looks like a joke, fate, coincidences ... the fact is that I can't stop swimming - explains the blue in a story on Instagram -. I would have preferred to compete this year, but given all that is going on in the world and that many athletes do not have the opportunity to train we would have arrived without being prepared, so the decision to move them for a year is right and I agree. We will prepare ourselves better, it is just a matter of reprogramming everything. And we hope that the body will keep hit again for a year "concludes the queen of the blue swimming.