If the 2020 Olympics get postponed, when would they happen? The answer might be further out than organizers would like.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told other world leaders last week he wanted the Tokyo Olympics his country is preparing to host to be proof that mankind could “defeat the new coronavirus.”International Olympic Committee announcing Sunday
The IOC’s weekend announcement came among mounting pressure from athlete and sport bodies to postpone the Games. USA Swimming and USA Track and Field both called for their postponement since Friday, as did the Norwegian Olympic Committee.survey of 125 athletes who participated in a U.S.
“We can't be in an exponential growth portion of this outbreak. We can't be holding the Games when hospitals are being overrun with cases of people who are dying of this disease.” “The danger is in the absence of a vaccine that if you had a big worldwide event like that, that you could reintroduce, reboot, so to speak, chains of transmission, which would then require you to take the very restrictive measures that were having to take now to tamp it down,” said Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at New York University and Bellevue Hospital and host of the podcast Epidemic.
“I would have real moral objections if the situation was the same as it was today to competing,” said swimmer Nathan Adrian, a five-time Olympic gold medalist. “Unless they forced all of us to be there for two weeks after we were done competing to quarantine ourselves, tested each and every one of us before we got on a plane. I think it would have to probably be draconian to enact the security measures that I would say are needed to be safe.
With the conditions changing almost daily, few can predict what the spread of the virus will be in the near future let alone further out. If a year is a good option for postponement, experts said, two is better.
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