LONDON - Calls from sporting organisations 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.
In a letter to United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee chief executive Sarah Hirshland, USATF urged USOPC to use its voice to "speak up for athletes". USA Swimming wrote to USOPC on Friday calling for a delay of one year, CEO Tim Hinchey saying "we have watched our athletes' worlds be turned upside down".
"It's clear that right now, maintaining the Games for this year will impede dream from being realised," he said.Suggesting a year's delay, he said the IOC was experienced in dealing with obstacles, citing the cancellations in 1916, 1940 and 1944 because of World Wars and the political boycotts of the Games in Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984.
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