Posted on 03/23/2020 11:29:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic games will be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic, a committee member told USA Today in an interview Monday.
"On the basis of the information the IOC [International Olympic Committee] has, postponement has been decided," veteran IOC member Dick Pound told the newspaper. "The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know."
The IOC will announce its next steps soon, said Pound, a Canadian former swimming champion.
"We will postpone this and begin to deal with all the ramifications of moving this, which are immense," he told USA Today.
The Olympic Committee has faced growing calls to postpone the summer games, including from Global Athlete, which represents Olympics hopefuls, and USA Swimming and USA Track & Field.
Australia and Canada had already announced they would not compete in the Tokyo games if they took place as originally scheduled.
The IOC had said Sunday officials were considering postponing the games, but they have repeatedly insisted the event will not be canceled.
"The IOC [executive board] emphasized that a cancellation of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 would not solve any of the problems or help anybody. Therefore, cancellation is not on the agenda," the committee said Sunday.
Large gatherings - including other sporting events across the globe - have been canceled over the coronavirus, which has infected more than 366,900 people globally, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
That means they expect this thing to still be quite a bit of trouble in 3 months.
hmm.
This could go on until FOOTBALL SEASON!......................
It makes you wonder about the rest of the sports world. Will we see baseball in 2020? Will NBA basketball and NHL hockey finish their suspended seasons?
I suspect it’s all the qualifying trials that are going on now and supposed to happen in the next two months that won’t be possible to get done that has appplied the pressure toward postponement.
It may be NO SPORTS at all during the crisis, at ANY level......................
LOLOLOLOLOL!.......................
That would suck!!
Somebody mentioned the qualifying etc up to the olympics would be going on now or soon.
That makes sense.
Maybe it’s more about what they can’t do up to the olympics.
Okay, that got me snickering like an eighth grader... heheh...
Well, there goes my chance for a gold medal in Synchronized Swimming this year.
I could get a medal for Synchronized Sleeping.....................
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You got some Stiff competition..
thanks for the post of the dogs sleeping
If the Olympics can’t go on, what about our US political conventions?
We have darts and horseracing.
The first skyped conventions in history.
-PJ
Not that I know of, but it is a great idea!................
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