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The implications of a delayed Olympics for the USWNT

Today, the International Olympic Committee officially announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are postponed to 2021. There is no word on exact dates - unsurprising, given the uncertainty of the timeline on containing the current COVID-19 outbreak - but the IOC said the Olympics will be held “not later than summer 2021.” The phrasing of this implies that the games may not necessarily be during the summer of 2021 and that perhaps the IOC would try to get things rolling as soon as they’re safely able to do so, weather also permitting. Regardless, this shift will have implications for every sport; here we’re taking a look at what this might do for the US women’s national team, working on the assumption that the games will actually go forward in the summer.