On 22 March, the Olympic team and the Canadian Paralympic of the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo in July 2020 were withdrawn. In addition, it called on the International Olympic Committee to delay the games: “We take on the difficulties that this kind of delay can cause, but nothing is above the health of our athletes and the world community.”
Although statements made by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after Trump’s decision have not been made public, one of the options was to delay the games. “It’s hard to keep games in their entirety, the postponement will be inevitable because the health of athletes is a priority for us,” he said on March 23.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), for its part, considered that postponing the games "is only one of the options" and that suspending the games would not solve any problems.
The delegations of Australia and the United Kingdom have been the following to cancel the participation, and after that, the Olympic Committee has decided to postpone the games.