As COVID-19 continues to put lives at risk and complicate athletes’ training, the Games will be “rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021.” Olympics Covid_19
. “The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.”
According to the IOC statement released Tuesday, the IOC and the Olympic organizing committee decided that hosting the Games in July would pose too much of a health risk in light of the present circumstances. They decided to postpone the Games to a currently undecided date that is no later than summer 2021. The Games will remain in Tokyo.
As far as qualifying for the Olympics goes, there haven’t been any announcements made yet about how the track and field athletes competing for Team U.S.A. will be selected. As of March 16, the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trialsis monitoring any news on a possible rescheduling of Trials.
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