Athletes who had already qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before they were postponed will keep their places when the sporting event takes place in 2021
Women wearing protective face masks following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease walk past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum, a day after the announcement of the games' postponement to 2021, in Tokyo, Japan March 25, 2020.
Around 57 percent of the 11,000 scheduled participants for Tokyo had already made sure of taking part when the International Olympic Committee pushed the Games back to 2021 due to the coronavirus on Tuesday. "Thomas Bach first explained the reasons for the postponement of the Games, then said that the athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 would automatically be qualified for 2021," one of the participants in the conference told AFP."In some federations, many sportsmen and sportswomen are not qualified and it takes at least three months for the Olympic Games to organise them."
However, there is no definite date yet for the rescheduled Games with Bach saying on Tuesday the Tokyo Olympics "must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community".
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