After weeks of hedging, the IOC took the unprecedented step of postponing the world's biggest sporting event. The 2020 Summer Olympics will now be pushed into 2021 THRNews
Not even the Summer Olympics could withstand the force of the coronavirus. After weeks of hedging, the International Olympic Committee took the unprecedented step of postponing the world's biggest sporting event, a global extravaganza that has been cemented into the calendar for more than a century.
"I don't think anybody was really prepared for this virus happening," said American sprinter Noah Lyles, primed to be one of the world's breakout stars in Tokyo. "You look over the history of the Olympics and see that it's usually war that's stopped the Olympics from happening." Four-time Olympic hockey champion Hayley Wickenheiser, the first IOC member to criticize the body's long-held, dug-in refusal to change the dates, called the postponement the "message athletes deserved to hear."
Even more compellingly, athletes were raising their voices. They were speaking to the unfairness of not being able to train, fearful that a trip out of the house could put them, or someone in their hometown, in jeopardy.
"People are having a problem calling off weddings, and calling off little tournaments, so imagine with all the billions of dollars that's gone into this," five-time Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings told the Associated Press. "They have a grieving process to go through. They have so many moving parts to think about."
It came together during a meeting between Bach, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a handful of other executives from the IOC and Japan's organizing committee.
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