TOKYO 2020: WHAT NOW?
"The one thing that brings the world together is the Olympics.” said two-time archery Olympian, and three-time Olympic medalist Brady Ellison, of the USA.
“It just sucks all around no matter how you look at things. I really hope they just push them back this year… People have trained their whole lives or at least the last four years and now they may not get to go, or if it’s postponed some athlete who would be good enough to go now, in two years may be slower.”
After weeks of rumour, pressure and speculation as the COVID-19 outbreak spread across the world, on the 23rd March there finally appeared an official confirmation that Tokyo 2020, at least as planned, is no more. Dick Pound, the rather loud IOC member that occasionally acts as a blunt instrument for the media to connect with the institution, told USA Today as
