Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike are expected to call the International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and propose a one-year postponement of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
The Olympics have never been postponed in history. The modern Olympics has been canceled only during wartime. A final decision would have to be announced and made by the IOC and Bach.
The announcement by Abe comes after senior IOC member Dick Pound said that the fate of the Tokyo Olympics would be a postponement. On Sunday, the IOC said it would take up to four weeks to make a final decision on the Tokyo Olympics and the possibility of postponing it to later this year or 2021.