Japan Medical Association president Yoshitake Yokokura had said it would only be possible for the Olympics to go ahead in July 2021 if the infections were under control, not only in Japan, but globally
Former Olympic champion Guy Drut, who is also an IOC member since 1996, argued that the postponement of Tokyo Games due to coronavirus pandemic was just the tip of the iceberg
Six qualification events - three women's and three men's - were due to take place in March and April respectively to determine the remaining spots in the Tokyo Olympic Games
The latest incident in the colourful career of the three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang comes two months after he was given an eight-year ban for refusing to provide a doping sample
The 2020 Olympics was postponed to July 23-August 8, 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic but several health experts have questioned if it will be possible to hold the Games even next year
Neither the Japanese organizers nor the International Olympic Committee has said what it will cost to delay the Tokyo Games for one year. But early estimates range between $2 billion and $6 billion
Tokyo spokesman Masa Takaya said the organizing committee has asked the Switzerland-based International Olympic Committee to remove a comment from its website suggesting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had agreed that Japan would shoulder most of the postponement costs
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
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 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
