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Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021 — almost exactly one year after the games were due to start.
Vashti Cunningham, A’ja Wilson and Liz Cambage are some of the local athletes who will be forced to wait to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee said the Tokyo Games “must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020, but not later than summer 2021.”
The Canadian Olympic Committee says it won’t send athletes to the Tokyo Games unless they’re postponed for a year, becoming the first country to threaten such a move in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
The change in strategy followed IOC president Thomas Bach leading a conference call with executive board members.