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Nearly 75% of Surveyed Athletes Favor Postponing Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID-19

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Almost three-quarters of the 125 American athletes who participated in a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee town hall supported postponing the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, according to USA Today.

The town hall came amid doubt as to whether the Olympics can go on as scheduled during the coronavirus outbreak. More than 267,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed across the world, per CNN.

The Olympics are scheduled to begin July 24. The International Olympic Committee announced Sunday its executive board "will step up its scenario-planning" for the 2020 Olympics but that "cancellation is not on the agenda.