Chloe Esposito announced in late January that a “wonderful, unexpected surprise” had occurred and that she wouldn’t be able to defend her modern pentathlon title at the Tokyo Olympics.
“My husband, Matt Cooper, and I are bringing a mini Cooper into this world in August,” Esposito said on social media. “True to form, nothing ever works out the way we plan it. Defending my title will have to wait another four years. Can’t wait to be a mum.”
Less than two months later, on March 24 to be exact, Esposito and thousands of other Olympic athletes learned that the Tokyo Games would be postponed by a year until July 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.