The dates for the Tokyo Olympics have been confirmed. The Tokyo Olympic Games will start on July 23, 2021 and run to August 8. The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board met today (March 30) and made the decision.

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.

“Humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel. These Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel.”