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Olympics hero Carl Lewis leads calls to postpone Tokyo Games as IOC continues to wait

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Olympics legend Carl Lewis wants the Tokyo 2020 Games to be postponed two years. Nine-times track and field gold medallist Lewis is leading the rising tide of international dissent against the showpiece going ahead on schedule from July 24 to August 9 amid the global coronavirus pandemic crisis.

The American sprint idol, 58, does NOT believe the party in Japan should be cancelled outright, but he said: “I think it is really hard for an athlete to prepare, train and keep motivated with such total uncertainty.

That is the hardest thing. “Athletes cannot prepare for the Olympic Games if there are no Olympic trials, and they have no competition. “Two years?

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