Calls from sporting organizations for this year's Tokyo Olympics to be post...
LONDON - Calls from sporting organizations for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace on Saturday with USA Track and Field and Brazil’s Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.
Their optimism that the show will go on, however, is looking increasingly out-of-step with countries in lockdown and athletes around the world unable to train. “We acknowledge that there are no perfect answers, and that this is a very complex and difficult decision, but this position at least provides our athletes with the
The chairman of UK Athletics said last week the Olympics should be called off to spare athletes the stress of trying to train in the grip of a pandemic which has killed around 12,000 people since the virus surfaced in China. Norway’s Sports Federation and Olympic and Paralympic Committee said it had written to IOC chief Thomas Bach calling for the Games to be postponed, even if the pandemic is under control in Japan by the summer.
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