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Canada urges Tokyo Games delay, won’t send team in July
MONTREAL, March 23, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Canadian Olympic officials on Sunday
urged postponement of the Tokyo Games, saying that in view of the coronavirus
pandemic they won’t send a team in the summer of 2020.
“The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee
(CPC), backed by their Athletes’ Commissions, National Sports Organizations
and the Government of Canada, have made the difficult decision to not send
Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020,”
the COC said in a statement that ratchets up the pressure on the
International Olympic Committee to postpone the Games scheduled to start on
July 24.
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