Category: Organization
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British Swimming left with ‘no alternative’ but to cancel Summer Championships
British Swimming has confirmed its Summer Championships have been cancelled. Chief executive Jack Buckner said they were left with ‘no alternative’ but to call off the event, which was due to take place at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge International Pool between 21-26 July, The cancellation was agreed following the latest guidelines about social distancing and with…
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Swim Ireland axes 2020 regional and national events
Swim Ireland has announced that all regional and national competitions originally scheduled between now and the end of this season in August 2020 will no longer take place, and others will be postponed. The association had already cancelled their Olympic and Paralympic trials, which were due to take place at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin…
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Joint Statement From the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee
The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, held a conference call this morning to discuss the constantly changing environment with regard to COVID-19 and the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. They were joined by Mori Yoshiro, the President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee; the…
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Breaking: Japan Proposes One-Year Postponement For Tokyo Olympics
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike have proposed a one-year postponement of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in a conference call with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. Abe said Bach agreed “100%” with this proposal, which would have to be approved by the IOC’s Executive Board. The Olympics have never been…
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IOC member says that 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
Veteran International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound told USA TODAY Sports Monday afternoon that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed, likely to 2021, with the details to be worked out in the next four weeks. “On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,†Pound said in…
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Australia plans for postponed Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021
The AOC held an Executive Board meeting via teleconference this morning and unanimously agreed that an Australian Team could not be assembled in the changing circumstances at home and abroad. AOC Chief Executive Matt Carroll says athletes have needed certainty – they wanted to do the right thing for themselves, their families and the world…
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Canadian athletes will not compete at Tokyo 2020 Games due to COVID-19 risks
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) say they won’t send athletes to compete at the Tokyo Games — set to begin July 24 — if they go ahead as scheduled. Backed by the Athletes’ Commissions, National Sport Organizations and the Government of Canada, the COC and CPC say they “made the difficult decision to not…
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Opinion: Please release us, IOC
It has now been a week since I wrote this opinion piece: https://www.swimmersdaily.com/2020/03/14/opinion-ioc-needs-to-cancel-the-olympics-now/ If we imagine for a moment that there was any validity at all in that post. – That there had been any damage done by the IOC not yet having canceled or postponed the Tokyo 2020 Olympics – Then that damage has…
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