TOKYO -- The Tokyo Olympic Games will now start on July 23 next year and finish on Aug. 8, authorities said on Monday.
Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, and Yuriko Koike, Tokyo's governor, told reporters about the new date at news conferences on Monday evening. This was after they had conferred with Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, and Seiko Hashimoto, the government minister in charge of the Olympics, they said.
