The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers announced the new dates for the Tokyo Olympics, which will now run from July 23 to Aug. 8, 2021.
The Olympics were initially slated to be held from July 24 to Aug. 9, 2020. Last week. Japanese prime minister and IOC president Thomas Bach agreed to postpone the Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic and announced the Games would take place "no later than summer 2021."
The finalized dates will lead to some reshuffling in qualifying tournaments and trials to fit within the calendar year. There were some rumors about possibly moving the Olympics to the spring for more favorable weather but the IOC decided that the same heat mitigation measures for 2020 would be implemented a year later.