Quaker2001

Agreed. Priority number 1 is the safety of everyone who will be in Tokyo during the Olympics (and by extension, anyone they come in contact with when they return home). Very secondary is qualifying and how this affects the calendar. A lot of accommodations are being made and will be made for events moving around. If having the Olympics in 2021 instead of 2020 means the IAAF has to move the World Championships, that should be the least of the considerations

Yes. Everyone screaming "just cancel it now" need to pipe down. Let the IOC do their due diligence here, because what they can't do - and I saw someone suggest this - is to say "the Olympics are postponed to an unknown later date." That's not an option.

I agree, but they need to have more than 1 plan in place, even if they refuse to discuss that publicly. All the reporting I'm reading makes it sound like they're not even bringing it up.

I agree 100% with the last point and I'm concerned that Bach is not the right person to guide the IOC through this crisis and his decisions could do harm to the reputation of the IOC if he's not careful.

I'm okay with them planning for a Games to occur this July/August. But they need to be forthcoming about plans about a potential postponement. They don't have to make that decision now, it can wait until May. But what can't happen is we get to May, the state of the world is still not good enough to hold the Games, then my hope is that the IOC will tell us "we had hoped for this summer, but we are now planning to hold the Olympics _____." My fear is that we get to May and the IOC tells us "we cannot host the Olympics this Summer, we have no choice but to cancel"

2 weeks ago I would have said try for July. Not so sure that's realistic at this point. As long as they happen at some point, I'll be happy. I just hope the IOC doesn't torpedo their own best efforts to make that happen.

They're scheduled for late October/early November. Obviously it would be squeezing a lot onto the calendar with the Olympics, Paralympics, and Youth Olympics all in 1 year. But hopefully it wouldn't need to be pushed back

Easier said than done. There are a ton of logistical hurdles they'll have to overcome to make that happen and my fear is that they're putting all of their eggs into one basket trying to make this summer work where it may be out of their control. I'll hold out hope until the day the IOC makes the announcement. I just hope should it come to the point that they can't hold the Olympics that they've at least attempted to come up with a backup plan

Qatar: "We promise we can build air-conditioned stadiums and still hold the World Cup in June and July" Also Qatar: "Nah, just kidding, that was stupid.. thanks FIFA for awarding us the World Cup, but how's November and December for you?"

Don't forget the World Cup. How convenient it would be for the IOC that's not being held in its usual window during the summer and instead potentially leaves those months wide open for the Olympics to be held

Would the organizers and the IOC rather have a compromised Olympics this summer or have to scramble and reset to hold it in 2022? Tough to figure what decision they would make given all the logistical hurdles they would have to deal with

I've been saying that the right move is to wait until May to make that decision. But there needs to be a backup plan and it seems like the IOC and the organizers aren't even considering that.

NBA, NHL, and MLB all officially shut down in the United States

College basketball tournaments are being cancelled one by one very quickly. The NCAA Tournament may not be far behind

More from the league. The tipping point was a player testing positive for COVID-19... Coronavirus pandemic causes NBA to suspend season after player tests positive

Coronavirus causes Ivy League to cancel conference tournament; Yale earns automatic NCAA Tournament bid

And at the same time, risk people contracting the virus and spreading it all over the world. The risk of holding the Olympics isn't just that people attending will get sick, but that they'll be a danger to others. Cancelling sporting events is being overly cautious to be sure, but if doing that for a few weeks might help contain the spread of the virus, that's a small price to pay to potentially save people's lives.

They just finished showing the race here in the states. That was incredible. Can't believe Karlsson actually caught Johaug and beat her!

There is ZERO chance of that happening. That would be a horrendous decision. Everything is not ready. The Coliseum isn't set up for athletics. The temporary swimming venue isn't there. And do we know if UCLA and USC dorms are ready to go? I remember hearing talk that if the Qatar got stripped of the 2022 World Cup, that the United States would offer to step in. No thank you. I don't want their sloppy seconds. As it is with LA.. let them host the 2028 Olympics that they will have spent over a decade planning for. Not to rush up and have a half-assed Olympics.

An Olympiad is a period of 4 years. Hosting them next summer still falls under the same Olympiad. And I hate to tell you this, but I don't think the virus cares about your viewpoint. I hope and pray that the Olympics don't need to be cancelled (also because that would be better for the safety of the planet), but that decision won't be based on our views. It'll be based on what's doing with the virus.

Exactly. I have a feeling some of those events would move just to get out of the way of the Olympics. The OLYMPICS.

If the Olympics were to get postponed and were at the same time as another multi-sports games, I have a pretty good feeling you would have a tougher time watching those multi-sports games and less of a tough time watching the Olympics. Sucks for those other events, but if there's no alternative, that's the way it has to be.

That's not good. But makes sense, especially considering 1 of the participating teams is China.

I live in New York. I see them all the time here, even before this outbreak. Yes, it's mostly Asians, so that's nothing new

He's playing in the qualifiers for the World Baseball Classic, not the Olympics. The Philippines are not a part of Olympic baseball qualifiying