International Hockey Federation (FIH) CEO Thierry Weil has welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee and Japanese authorities to postpone Tokyo Olympic Games to 2021.

"On behalf of the International Hockey Federation, I would like to thank and express our full support to the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, the Japanese authorities and the Tokyo metropolitan government for the decision taken to postpone the Olympics to next year," Weil said in a statement.