Your 2020-ish Summer Olympics update: Canada is out, Australia is out, and the United States is in its therapist’s office, saying it really wants to get out too, but is scared to speak up. Heads of the U.S.’s two largest and most important federations, swimming and track, have said the Olympics should be postponed until 2021. But the U.S. Olympic Committee’s official position is equal parts hem and haw.
It’s time for the U.S. to officially withdraw from the 2020 Olympics, with the request that the Games be delayed until 2021. The delay is inevitable, anyway.