Dates for 2020 Tokyo Games unveiled

Several Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials say new dates for the 2020 Tokyo Games have been decided.

The Tokyo Olympics will open on July 23, 2021, and the Paralympic Games will begin on August 24 of the same year.

The officials say the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo Games organizing committee, and the Tokyo Metropolitan and Japanese governments all agreed on the new schedule.

It was previously said that the 2020 Tokyo games would be postponed by about a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.