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"Everyone needs to be flexible and compromise and to that end we are now working with the organisers of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon on new dates in 2022. This gives our athletes the time they need to get back into training and competition," World Athletics said in a statement. "We support the new 2021 dates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. If that is moved back exactly a year it would clash with the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham which is set to take place between 27 July and 7 August. The World Athletics Championships, originally set to take place in Oregon, USA, between 6 August and 15 August 2021, will now be postponed until 2022. The new dates also took into consideration the rest of the global sports calendar after the men's football European Championship was postponed to the summer of 2021. The decision to postpone both events was taken to protect the health of the athletes and everyone involved, and to support the containment of the Covid-19 virus.

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"With the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games 512 days away, the priority for all those involved in the Paralympic movement must be to focus on staying safe with their friends and family during this unprecedented and difficult time." International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons added: "When the Paralympic Games do take place in Tokyo next year, they will be an extra-special display of humanity uniting as one, a global celebration of human resilience and a sensational showcase of sport.

These Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel." "Humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel. IOC president Thomas Bach said: "I am confident that, working together with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese Government and all our stakeholders, we can master this unprecedented challenge.

The Paralympic Games, originally due to start on 24 August, 2020, will now take place between 24 August and 5 September, 2021. The Olympics will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021.