The 2020 Summer Olympic Games begin this week after being postponed for a full year due to the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic. Tokyo, Japan will be the games’ host for a second time, after previously serving as the host city for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Though the event is being held in 2021, it will still be officially branded and advertised as “Tokyo 2020” and referred to as the “2020” Summer Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will have already started and possibly concluded by the time you read this post. Japan Standard Time is 14 hours ahead of North America’s Central Time, and while NBC will broadcast an encore of the opening ceremony tonight in prime time, its scheduled start time was actually around 6:00 am Central Time this morning.