Tokyo 2020: No changes to Olympic schedule for delayed 2021 Games

Next year's postponed Olympics will have an almost identical schedule to that planned for this year before the Games were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

All events will take place a day earlier than planned for 2020, with the opening ceremony scheduled on 23 July 2021.

There have been some minor changes to session times but all 42 venues for the Games have been secured.

Developers had been due to take ownership of the venues, including the athletes' village in which apartments had already been sold for after the Games.

John Coates, the head of the IOC's coordination commission, said securing the venues had been a "massive task".

"We are talking about venues in different ownership," he said.

"We are talking also of securing the Olympic village which has been constructed by a consortium of 11 different companies, who have agreed to put back the date when will be able to hand over the apartments to the public."