Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty they are sure to be more muted than the first attempt 12 months ago. On July 24 last year, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach presided over a glitzy ceremony in the Japanese capital and declared …
The chairman of UK Athletics, Nic Coward, has become the first senior figure in British sports administration to voice his belief that the Olympics should be called off now to “remove the stress” from athletes’ whose lives and training have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The International Olympic Committee and its president Thomas Bach have come under increasing pressure …
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