The Olympic and Paralympic swim trials scheduled to start Monday in Toronto, for example, are now on hold.Canada currently has 85 quota slots confirmed for Tokyo, which is just over 50 per cent of the estimated team size of between 130 and 150 athletes, according to the Canadian Paralympic Committee.
Competing in World Cups this winter, the 31-year-old from King City, Ont., was collecting points towards claiming it. "We had completed five of out six World Cups. We had one more international competition that would have contributed to internal points and obviously that’s not happening.Veteran athletes on the eight Canadian teams already Tokyo-bound may feel secure in their roster position and confident they’ll be in Tokyo.
Who cares for now. A solution will be figured out later. Its only sport after all.
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