SportsPulse: The United States Olympic Committee made the decision to cancel its annual media summit as a result of growing fears surrounding the coronavirus. USA TODAY
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, ticked through the crises the organization has faced in hosting recent Olympics, a laundry list of obstacles that hadn’t stopped the Games from going forward.
Nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula before Pyeongchang two years ago.
The Zika virus before the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Boycotts and counter-boycotts in the 1980s.
“You need more?” he quipped, concluding a news conference on March 4 during which he fielded repeated questions about the IOC’s response to the novel coronavirus four months before the Tokyo Olympics.