The games will go on! According to IOC Vice President John Coates, the Summer Olympics are happening next year regardless of whether there is still a coronavirus pandemic. “It will take place with or without COVID,” Coates told the press. “The games will start on July 23 next year.
The games were going to be, their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami. Now very much these will be the games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel.” After being pushed to 2021, the International Olympic Committee announced that the competition is now scheduled to take place from July 23 to Aug.