Tokyo Olympics will be postponed, say IOC

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Canada, Australia pull out as athletes worry about health. FMTNews Tokyo

The Olympic rings are reflected in the glass wall of a wedding chapel in Tokyo.

“The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.” World Athletics said on Monday they would be willing to move their 2021 world championships scheduled for Aug 6-15 in Eugene, Oregon to clear a path for a 2021 Olympics. More than 337,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus worldwide and over 14,600 have died in a pandemic that the World Health Organization said was accelerating.

Canada and Australia both bluntly said they would not participate if the Games were not put back to 2021 and Britain may have followed suit.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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