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Organizers Announce Schedule for Rearranged Tokyo Olympics

Reuters

   TOKYO / BERN - The Tokyo Olympics next year will use the same venues
   and follow an almost identical competition schedule as the one
   originally planned for this year before the event was postponed because
   of the novel coronavirus pandemic, organizers said Friday.

   However, organizers told an IOC session held by videoconference that it
   was too early to give details on coronavirus prevention measures during
   the games or on whether events would be in full or partly full
   stadiums, or behind closed doors.

   The International Olympic Committee and Japanese government decided in
   March to postpone the games until 2021 and organizers have been working
   to rearrange an event almost a decade in the making.

   The Olympics had been set to begin on July 24 this year.

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