Olympics-Tokyo's delayed and disrupted 2020 Games

Advertisings for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are displayed at the Olympic Promenade in the Centre Promenade Park which links the Aomi and Odaiba areas with the Ariake area in Tokyo, Japan July 8, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic organisers have decided to hold the Tokyo Games without spectators, as Japan struggles to stem a new wave of coronavirus infections with a state of emergency for Tokyo that will end after the July 23-Aug. 8 Games.

The following is a timeline of major events in the run-up to the Olympics, postponed for a year and set to open in about two weeks: