{"id":260890,"date":"2020-07-08T06:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260890"},"modified":"2020-07-08T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:20:25","slug":"tokyo-2020-welcomes-uns-olympic-truce-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/08\/tokyo-2020-welcomes-uns-olympic-truce-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 welcomes UN&#8217;s Olympic truce change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249854\" style=\"width: 667px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/A-virus-rages-a-flame-goes-out-Tokyo-Games-reset-for-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-249854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/A-virus-rages-a-flame-goes-out-Tokyo-Games-reset-for-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/A-virus-rages-a-flame-goes-out-Tokyo-Games-reset-for-2021.jpg 667w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/A-virus-rages-a-flame-goes-out-Tokyo-Games-reset-for-2021-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Olympic truce dates back to the ancient Olympic Games around 2,800 years ago, when a truce was announced to ensure that athletes and spectators could travel safely to and from the Games. (File Photo: @kfdias\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>TOKYO<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee has welcomed the UN General Assembly&#8217;s decision to move the previously agreed Olympic truce to 2021 due to the postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori said in a statement, &#8220;We welcome the United Nations General Assembly&#8217;s approval of the change in the observation period of the Olympic truce to next summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to place hope in the power of sport to bring people around the world together and help achieve peace,&#8221; the former Japanese Prime Minister said. &#8220;Inspired by the adoption of this updated resolution, we will make all the more effort to utilize the priceless opportunity presented by the Tokyo 2020 Games to help build a peaceful and better world through sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic truce dates back to the ancient Olympic Games around 2,800 years ago, when a truce was announced to ensure that athletes and spectators could travel safely to and from the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) renewed this tradition in 1992 to protect the interests of athletes and sport, and resolve global conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Olympic Games have been pushed back by one year to July 23 to August 8, 2021 because of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, with the Paralympic Games set to follow from August 24 to September 5.<\/p>\n<p>IOC president Thomas Bach was also pleased with the shift, calling it &#8220;a strong sign of confidence that these Olympic Games will be the light at the end of the dark tunnel humankind is currently going through&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very grateful to all governments for this expression of trust in the Olympic Games,&#8221; Bach added.<em><strong>\u00a0(Xinhua)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u00a0\u2013 The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee has welcomed the UN General Assembly&#8217;s decision to move the previously agreed Olympic truce &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260891,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260890\/revisions\/260891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}