As the drumbeat to postpone the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games grows louder by the day, with athletes and national governing bodies continuing to speak out amid a patchwork of dispatches suggesting one alternative or another, the International Olympic Committee announced, finally and very belatedly on Sunday afternoon, that it will decide the fate of the Games within the next four weeks.
In the midst of the expanding coronavirus pandemic, the IOC still could decide to keep the Olympics on the calendar as scheduled, July 24 to August 9, or it could postpone them. The Games will not be canceled, IOC president Thomas Bach said.