This morning, the International Olympic Committee finally did the inevitable, taking an unprecedented step to officially postpone the 2020 Olympics, which were set to begin on July 24th. The postponement is due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak that has brought the world to a screeching halt in the past week. IOC senior member Dick Pound said yesterday that postponement of the Olympics “had been decided.”
In recent days, several national olympic committees, Canada and Australia being among the first, had called on the IOC to postpone the Summer Games.