U.N. shifts Olympic truce to next year for delayed Tokyo Games

The U.N. General Assembly decided Monday to move the previously agreed Olympic truce from 2020 to the July-September period next year in line with the postponement of the Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus pandemic.In keeping with the custom for Olympic nations in the year before hosting the Games, Japan proposed the truce resolution at the United Nations in advance of the Summer Olympics originally slated for 2020.The truce resolution was adopted unanimously without a vote last December. Following the decision to delay the Tokyo Games by roughly a year from the initial schedule, Japan call…READ FULL ARTICLE