PARIS, March 21 — As the deadly coronavirus spreads around the globe, doubts grow over whether the 2020 Olympic Games, set for Tokyo from July 24 to August 9, will go ahead. AFP Sport looks at who’s saying what as the debate becomes even more heated: “Of course we are considering different...
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee attends a news conference after an Executive Board meeting in Lausanne March 4, 2020. — Reuters pic
“Anything is possible at the moment.” — World athletics chief Sebastian Coe when asked whether the Games could be postponed to September or October. “The IOC wants us to keep risking our health, our family’s health and public health to train every day? You are putting us in danger right now, today, not in 4 months.” — Greece’s Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi.
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