'Sacrifice and compromise' needed as Tokyo Olympics look for new 2021 slot

Postponing Tokyo 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic will have been a hard pill to swallow for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) but it was really the easy bit compared to what must come next.

Reorganising the planet's biggest sporting event at such short notice will be a herculean task and IOC president Thomas Bach has warned that a new schedule will need “sacrifices and will need compromises” from the myriad stakeholders involved.