With tens of thousands dying around the world from the coronavirus, the IOC and Japan last month took the historic decision to delay the Olympics by one year, with an Opening Ceremony planned for July 23, 2021

Masa Takaya, the spokesman for the Tokyo Olympics, said organizers are proceeding under the assumption the Olympics will open on July 23, 2021

Fouaad Mirza, 28, who won two silver medals in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, is currently training in Germany

Thomas Bach was to visit Japan to check on preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games that was earlier postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic

Tokyo Olympics organising committee CEO Toshiro Muto said it's impossible to predict where the world will be with the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2021, when the postponed-Games were rescheduled to begin

In all, 57 per cent of the total athlete quota places for the Tokyo Olympic Games have already been allocated so far, with approximately 5,000 athlete quota places still to be assigned

The Olympic Flame had been on public display in the northeastern Fukushima region since last week, but Japanese organisers decided to shelve it as coronavirus cases climb in the country

The 36-year-old was struggling to make the cut for the Olympics, postponed to 2021 owing to the global COVID-19 pandemic

The Indian women's team have been placed in the Pool A of the Tokyo Olympics hockey tournament along with defending champions Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and South Africa

The IOC and Tokyo 2020 had announced the Olympics would run from July 23 to August 8 next year with the Paralympics following from August 24 to September 5 after the coronavirus outbreak has brought the world to a standstill

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has been talking about the possibility of occupying the massive development on Tokyo Bay, which is to house up to 11,000 Olympic and 4,400 Paralympic athletes and staff during the games

The Tokyo Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be held from July 24 to August 9 this year. However, the fallout from the global outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic led to the postponement

The historic decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics by 12 months was taken this week amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic

The public will have limited access to view the Olympic flame, and organizers hope to limit the crowd size because of restrictions in place for the coronavirus

A century before the Tokyo Olympics were postponed as coronavirus spread across the earth, sports helped in the healing

MC Mary Kom had won bronze at the 2012 London Olympic Games in the 51-kg weight category and will be a strong contender at the Tokyo 2020, which have been postponed until next year due to coronavirus pandemic

The Tokyo Olympics are now scheduled to run from July 23 to August 8, 2021 after they were put back a year because of the coronavirus pandemic

The commission also welcomed the IOC's announcement that those who have qualified for the Games before the qualifying schedule was thrown haywire by the pandemic, will remain Tokyo-bound

The announcement came immediately after Olympics organisers said the 2020 Tokyo Games -- postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic -- will now take place on July 23-August 8, 2021

On Tuesday, 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