In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the International Olympic Committee was slow to announce the postponement of the Olympic Games. Initially scheduled from July 24 to August 9, 2020, they will finally be held in the summer of 2021. Everyone was waiting for the news. At a time when more than three billion people are in lockdown, with no certainty about the evolution of the situation, not postponing the Tokyo Olympics seemed unrealistic. However, the International Olympic Committee and its president Thomas Bach were slow to make the announcement. The magnitude of the task and the financial losses involved were indeed cause for concern for organizers and participants. Finally, the solution of a postponement to 2021 finally prevailed. On Monday 30 March, the IOC and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced the new dates for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. They will take place from July 23 to August 08, 2021. 
The IOC has set up a working group, called Here we go, to actively work on reprogramming. To date, the challenge is above all to find solutions that satisfy the 33 international federations present at the Tokyo Olympic Games. At a press conference on Tuesday, March 24, Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister, announced that the 2021 Olympics would be "the testimony of the defeat of the virus" in the face of humanity. They will, however, keep the name "Olympic Games 2020".
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