Sweden, Canada ask Olympic organizers to move gold-medal game to later in evening to avoid extreme heat
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Team United States midfielder Julie Ertz arrives to tackle Team Canada forward Christine Sinclair in semi-final soccer action at the Tokyo Olympics in Kashima, Japan, on Aug. 2, 2020. Canada will meet Sweden in the gold medal game, which both teams would like to see moved to a later start.
“I myself have been in contact with [soccer governing body] FIFA today and written to them, so that’s about where the situation is today,” Marika Domanski Lyfors, the head of Sweden’s women’s team, told reporters.“It is primarily about the players’ health we’re thinking about and trying to change the time of the game. There’s a pretty big difference between playing in the afternoon or evening, and we are very much exposed to the warmth and heat,” she said.
“If we have to play at 11 o’clock in the morning, then we are prepared, but it would clearly be much better to for the performance and the game to have the possibility to play it later. Canada have exactly the same opinion,” Domanski Lyfors said.and follow all of the news, features and opinion in the Summer Games in Tokyo.
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