The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the vice president of the International Olympic Committee, John Coates, said Monday that the Tokyo Games will be the ones that "conquered" the coronavirus.
"The Games were going to be their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami," Coates said, per the BBC, referencing 2011's earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed over 15,000 people. "Now very much these will be the Games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel."
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