Pakistan, March 24 -- Veteran International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound announced on Monday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games are going to be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.

"It will come in stages. We will postpone this and begin to deal with all the ramifications of moving this, which are immense."

Asked about Pound's comments, an IOC spokesman said: "Well, as we announced yesterday, we are looking at scenarios."

Olympic Committee chairman Thomas Bach said on Sunday that he has ruled out cancelling the Games altogether.

The decision to postpone the Olympics comes after intense pres...