The International Olympic Committee has postponed the 2022 Dakar Youth Olympics for four years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
IOC President, Thomas Bach, said the delay was discussed two days ago in a telephone conversation with Senegal President, Macky Sall.
The Youth Summer Games would be the first Olympics organised in Africa.
“This was really too heavy workload for everybody,” Bach said, citing the postponed Tokyo Olympics, now opening in July 2021. The Beijing Winter Olympics are due to be held in February 2022.
The central government, on Tuesday, authorised states and Union Territories to “independently” decide about the resumption of sports activities in their region, depending upon the COVID-19 situation.
However, the government has urged the states and UTs to keep exploring possibilities to start some kind of activities within the next two-three months.
“We would have had to master five (Olympic) Games in just three years,” Bach said.
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