Nine-times Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis on Sunday called for the 2020 athle...
- Nine-times Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis on Sunday called for the 2020 athletics season to be scrapped and July’s Tokyo Games to be postponed until 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands.
“Let’s wipe the season clean, focus on the worlds and get it together,” America’s most decorated track and field athlete told Reuters in a telephone interview.With the uncertainty now of whether there will be a Games in 2020 and the tightening of people’s movement by governments to try to control the virus, “we are in the twilight zone,” Lewis said.
“It keeps everyone in limbo. We can’t get on with our lives until we know what is going on,” said Lewis, an assistant track and field coach at the University of Houston who also coaches professional athletes.Regardless of what happens, the pandemic will have a major impact on athletics and other sports, Lewis said.FILE PHOTO: XVIII Pan American Games - Lima 2019 - Athletics - Athletics Stadium, Lima, Peru - August 7, 2019. Retired athlete Carl Lewis of the U.S. waves.
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