Affected by the global COVID-19 epidemic, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also said in Congress that Tokyo will hold a "complete" Olympic and Paralympic Games on July 24th. According to the plan, the Olympic torch relay will start in Japan on the 26th. At the same time, many sports events around the world have been cancelled or postponed, and the Olympic committees of Canada, Australia and other countries have directly indicated that they will prepare to re-enter the competition on 20021.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a speech to the National Assembly that postponing the Tokyo Olympic Games is one of the options. This is the first time Abe has said that the Tokyo Olympics may be postponed. According to a report by Japan's Kyodo News last night, relevant sources of the Japanese government revealed that the Japanese government basically decided to notify the International Olympic Committee in the near future on the 23rd, and if the International Olympic Committee decides to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, Japan will agree.

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Hugh Robertson, president of the British Olympic Association, also said that if the spread of coronavirus continues as expected, Britain will not send a team to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. ?

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a statement saying that an assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the Tokyo Olympic Games will be completed in the next four weeks, and a decision will be made at that time, including the possibility of postponing the Olympic Games.