Due to Coronavirus pandemic, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said that the 2020 Summer Olympics which also called Tokyo 2020 will be postponed by one year. The postponement comes after the chairman of the British Olympic Association said Great Britain would be unlikely to send a team to Tokyo this summer.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is having a meeting today to discuss the future of the Tokyo Olympics especially regarding postponement of the Olympics. According to BBC, as Canada and Australia pulled out of Olympics last Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that the Tokyo Olympic Games may need to be postponed if the event cannot be held in its "complete form" due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"On the basis of the information that IOC has, the postponement has been decided," Dick Pound told USA today.

"The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on 24 July, that much I know."

The International Olympic Committee gives themselves four weeks to decide on the future of this summer's Games and the decision will be announced soon.

"It will come in stages," he said.

"We will postpone this and begin to deal with all the ramifications of moving this, which are immense."

The decision to postpone would be the first time the Olympics have been suspended, though the games have been canceled in times of war. It is an extremely big challenge for IOC and also to all the athletes who work hard for their Olympic dreams. However, because of the Coronavirus crisis, safety comes first. 

The World Athletics president Lord Coe said: "No one wants to see the Olympic Games postponed but, as I have said publicly, we cannot hold the event at all costs, certainly not at the cost of athlete safety."