On 7 September 2013 outgoing International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge declared “The Games of the 32nd Olympiad in 2020 are awarded to the city of… Tokyo!”
The Games returned to Japan’s capital city more than half a century after hosting the Olympics in 1964.
Due to the unprecedented effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) which engulfed the world in early 2020, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were rescheduled from 23 July – 8 August 2020 to the same dates in 2021.
The United States of America (USA) topped the medal table for the third-consecutive summer Olympics, winning 113 medals of which 39 were gold.
