President of the Jamaica Olympic Association Chris Samuda is delighted that the Tokyo Olympic Games will still be held during summer after The International Olympic Committee today announced new dates, less than a week after the scheduled 2020 staging was postponed due to the dynamic global spread of the coronavirus COVID-19.
The IOC executive board met today and confirmed the games will be held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, but the games will still be known as the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
The start of the Tokyo Olympics is 480 days away after the IOC announced that the Summer Games has been rescheduled to start on July 23, 2021.
IOC president Thomas Bach says He’s confident that, working together with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese Government, and all stakeholders, they can master this unprecedented challenge.
President of the Jamaica Olympic Association, Christopher Samuda, says the organizers will need every minute.
He says they are virtually substituting seven years of planning for seven months.
Samuda says he’s confident the rescheduled Games will be of the usual high standards.
