Campbells press pause on Tokyo dream
The Olympic dreams of hundreds of Australian athletes have been postponed – including those of the swim stars the Campbell sisters.
The Olympic dreams of hundreds of Australian athletes have been postponed – including those of the swim stars the Campbell sisters.
Monday afternoon, and Giants stars Toby Greene and Heath Shaw were making an unexpected road trip.
The nation’s sporting fields have fallen silent as a last-ditch attempt to resist the global contagion failed.
This year’s Tokyo Olympic Games are set to be officially called off.
Steve Hooker informed the AOC board of the growing anxiety among athletes due to the uncertainty around the Olympics.
Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, believes the Tokyo Olympics could still happen.
Swans chairman Andrew Pridham, who is part of the AFL’s war cabinet, said the right decision was made to play on.
The AOC says the Tokyo Olympics will either go ahead or be cancelled, as it defends itself and the IOC from critics.
The Australian Institute of Sport is being considered as a “quarantined training base” for sports in the lead up to the Olympics.
Anti-doping officials from around the world fear the Tokyo Olympics – if they go ahead this year – could be infested by drug cheats.
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