Dark clouds threaten the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. After this Sunday the organization a period of four weeks was granted to discern if ultimately stay up to date the Olympic event, Canada announced that it would not go to Japan.
This was announced by Team Canada, which refuses to send its athletes, so much Olympic as Paralympic Gamesto a competition that would launch the July 24 and would be postponed until August 9while the Paralympic Games would take place between August 25 and September 9.
“The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), supported by their Athletes' Commissions, national sport organizations and the Government of Canada, made the difficult decision not to send Canadian teams at the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games”, we can read in the press release.
In this way, Canada becomes the first delegation to resign go to the Tokyo Olympics, urging the IOC to “postpone the appointment and offering his “Full support to navigate the complexities of reprogramming“.
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