Sweden and Canada have asked Olympic organisers to move what is expected to be a hotly-contested women's gold-medal soccer match on Friday at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium to later in the day to avoid the sweltering heat of the Japanese summer.
Trackside temperatures at the athletics stadium hit 40 degrees earlier this week, and with the women's medal game due to take place at 1100 local time , both sides have expressed concerns for player welfare."I myself have been in contact with FIFA today and written to them, so that's about where the situation is today," Marika Domanski Lyfors, the head of Sweden's women's team, told reporters.
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