We asked fans planning to attend Tokyo 2020 to get in touch with how the Olympics' postponement had affected them - here are their stories.
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, it's not just athletes who have been affected.
"We had six weeks of our adventure and then everything started to shut down," Harriet Campbell tells BBC Sport."Hopefully we will get to Japan eventually." "Of course, that didn't happen. Austria announced it was going into lockdown and we realised we needed to move quickly. Jenny Slater has loved the Olympics from a very young age and decided while she was still at school that she would travel to China on her gap year to watch the Beijing Games in 2008.
Jenny - from London but now living in Copenhagen with her fiance - and Jeremy had been planning for Tokyo since before 2016. "The postponement of the Games felt inevitable and it is the right decision, but I was still really gutted," Jenny says.
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