Sunday, December 14, 2025 | 05:17 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Covid-19 may delay Tokyo Olympics: Here's what athletes are saying

French Athletics Federation president said he did not understand why the IOC was refusing to postpone the Tokyo Olympics 2020; Britain's 200-m world champion has called IOC 'irresponsible'

Tokyo Olympics
premium

A man walks past a large banner promoting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Photo: AP | PTI

BS Web Team New Delhi
Amid growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, or Covid-19, the International Olympic Committee has decided to take a call on the fate of the Tokyo Olymics 2020 by mid-April. However, Tokyo bound athletes have been going through “enormous ambiguity” and for some athletes, the IOC's announcement is too little, too late.
 
"So wait... does this mean that athletes face up to another FOUR weeks of finding ways to fit in training — whilst potentially putting ourselves, coaches, support staff and loved ones at risk just to find out they were going to be postponed anyway," tweeted Britain's Dina Asher-Smith,