Tokyo Games Postponed

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  1. Craig Wilson

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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC), has confirmed that the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo have been postponed for a year after IOC president Thomas Bach agreed to a request from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

    Disappointing for sports nuts like me.. but inevitable given this crisis.
     
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    Heaven knows if we'll even have baseball at this rate.
     
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    Excellent that the Olympics have been postponed!
     
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    I was very happy to see they postponed the Olympics. It would be insane, stupid and selfish to hold them with this virus problem.
     
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    We have had cricket, rugby league..our two major sports. Plus basketball, soccer and rugby union all postponed.. perhaps cancelled.
     
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    I'll miss that highly competetive, rugged sport of "curling".

    Hal
     
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    Yes, it's definitely good to relax with a nice match of curling after being overstimulated by watching paint dry.
     
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