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2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo to be held without spectators in attendance

16 August 2021 14:55 (UTC +04:00)

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo decided to hold the upcoming global tournament without spectators in attendance, APA reports quoting Japan’s Kyodo news agency.

An official announcement on this decision is expected to be made at the joint session of representatives of the Japanese government, Tokyo administration, the LOC-2020 and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), according to the news agency.

The 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Japan’s Tokyo will be held between August 24 and September 5. In March 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced their decision to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Japan for one year due to the continuous COVID-19 spread.