The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed until 2021

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be postponed until 2021, with details to be worked out over the next four weeks, veteran international Olympic committee member Dick Pound said Thursday, USA Today reported. "Based on information from the IOC, a decision has been made to postpone the Tokyo games," Pound said in a telephone interview, according to the report. There is no specific plan for the delay, but the Tokyo Olympics will not start on July 24. Dick Pound has been one of the most influential members of the IOC for decades. He said he believed the IOC would soon announce its next move. The move comes after Canada and Australia pulled out of this year's Tokyo games and the IOC said on March 22 it would review the situation within a month, with postponement as one of the options.

The Olympic committees of countries including Canada, Australia and New Zealand have already announced that they will not be able to compete in Tokyo unless the date is changed.