Star athletes we expect to see in Tokyo when Games are held The original 2020 Olympics schedule was July 24-Aug. 9 before the Games were postponed. The Paralympics were slated to run Aug. 25-Sept. 6.

Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky will be big storylines in the Olympics, but so will COVID-19. Getty Images (2) Ultimately, the decision to cancel the Games would rest with the International Olympic ...

What's gold is new again, so to speak. The new model for the medals that will be handed out at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was unveiled on Wednesday, and it's different than past prizes. While each ...

Nelly Korda, of the United States, poses with her gold medal, won in the women's golf event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, at the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, Japan.

The closing ceremony will be held on Aug. 8. The Tokyo Olympics had previously been slated to start almost exactly one year earlier, running from July 24 through Aug. 9.

According to the release, the Olympic flame will remain in Japan during the delay. The Summer Games will also continue to be called “Tokyo 2020,” even as they are moved to 2021.

In March 2020, the International Olympic Committee agreed to postpone the Games until 2021 due to concerns over Covid-19. The event was originally set to begin on July 24, 2020 and end on Aug. 9 ...

The Summer Games were last held in the Japanese capital in 1964. But with the 2020 Olympic Games still more than half a dozen years away, the hype is sure to reach epic proportions.

A member of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee’s executive board said that the games could likely be postponed one to two years if needed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Tokyo Olympics will be held under strict COVID-19 rules. AP Latest COVID-19 testing protocols Each participant in the Games was given access to a series of Tokyo 2020 Playbooks that outline ...