2020

Will Tokyo 2020 Go Ahead Despite COVID?

Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is "100 percent" certain the Games will go ahead, despite a state of emergency in the city.When And Where Are The Olympics?The 2020 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in the Japanese capital between 23 July and 8 August. The Paralympic Games are between 24 August and 5 September.They were postponed last year because of COVID.The Olympics involve 33 competitions and 339 events, held across 42 venues.

4 June 2021
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How 2020 Changed The World

When the world celebrated the dawn of a new decade with a blaze of firework parties and revelry on 1 January, few could have imagined what 2020 had in store.In the last 12 months, the novel coronavirus has paralysed economies, devastated communities and confined nearly four billion people to their homes. It has been a year that changed the world like no other for at least a generation, possibly since World War II.More than 1.6 million people died.

16 December 2020
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