The International Olympic Committee is barreling on toward staging the Summer Games in Tokyo like nothing unusual is happening in the world.
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is urging a wait and see approach — “We need more expert advice than we have today,” Susanne Lyons of the USOPC said Friday. “And we don't have to make a decision. The games are four months from now.”
USA Swimming, however, has seen enough to argue that those groups aren’t seeing the entire picture.
The governing body for swimming, which has a far better sense of the situation on the ground among athletes, announced it was “respectfully [requesting] that the USOPC advocate for the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by one year.