If the Olympics do somehow go ahead this summer as planned and aren't postponed, Team Canada won't be there.
If the Tokyo 2020 Olympics go ahead “as planned” this summer despite the global coronavirus pandemic, at least one country will not be attending.
The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee , 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. Story continues[Related: IOC admits postponing Olympics a realistic scenario, sets deadline after emergency coronavirus meeting]
In a statement, per the Sydney Morning Herald’s Phil Lutton, the AOC said it was anticipating a postponement from the International Olympic Committee in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, despite there being no official action from the IOC after it indicated that postponement of the Summer Games was now an option. The IOC previously resisted the idea.
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