Tokyo 2020 Olympics: IOC,Japan Confirm New Date for Delayed Games The Tokyo Olympics Games will hold from 23 July to 8 August after being postponed for a year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The new date was announced by the International Olympic Committee's(IOC)executive board following a meeting on Monday . The Olympics will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021. It is the first time in the Olympic Games' 124- year modern history that they have been delayed,though they were cancelled altogether in 1916 because of world war 1 and again in 1940 and 1944 for world war 2 which affected the summer Games in Moscow and Los Angeles in 1980 and 1984 respectively.