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Empathy, yes, but Tokyo pulling off its Games in a pandemic this summer would create more certainty that Beijing s 2022 Winter Games will go ahead six months later. It is like a test event for our Olympics, Kripps said. You can really confidently go into the Beijing Games if you had the Tokyo Games executed, and hopefully everything goes really well.
Beijing s Winter Olympics open exactly one year from Thursday, Feb. 4, 2022, followed by the Paralympic Winter Games a month later.
Beijing has more time for the world to tame the virus, or to adopt Tokyo s adaptations if it can t. I just hope for a normal Olympic Games, said two-time Olympic moguls champion Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que.
GermanyNorwayTokyoJapanUnited-statesNetherlandsHeerenveenFrieslandChinaItalyBeijingAmpezzoThe 20-year-old is one of hundreds of Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes whose laser focus on the Games was upended by the global pandemic.
“COVID has been the toughest competitor we’ve ever faced as a high-performance sport community,” said Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger.
Led by double Olympic trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan, Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic teams took the bold stance of withdrawing from the Tokyo Summer Games two days before the International Olympic Committee and organizing committee announced their postponement to 2021.
The Canadian team’s position of human health and safety trumping global competition stood out in the confusing, early days of the pandemic.
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