{"id":140170,"date":"2020-03-18T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=140170"},"modified":"2020-03-18T22:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:41:30","slug":"ioc-to-postpone-the-olympics-to-summer-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ioc-to-postpone-the-olympics-to-summer-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC to postpone the Olympics to summer 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ben Fischer, the International Olympic Committee &#8216;Is trying to move things along parallel paths, continuing to take all the steps that would allow the Games to proceed&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe alternative route would be to postpone Tokyo 2020 to the summer of 2021, a possibility that &#8216;Now is clearly in play&#8217;, according to the reporter&#8217;s sources.<br \/>\nThe IOC<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/news\/communique-from-the-international-olympic-committee-ioc-regarding-the-olympic-games-tokyo-2020\"> yesterday said that they remain fully committed<\/a> to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and &#8216;with more than four months to go before the Games there is no need for any drastic decisions at this stage; and any speculation at this moment would be counter-productive&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The IOC hasn&#8217;t said so officially, but a day&#8217;s worth of phone calls indicates to me a one-year delay to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tokyo2020<\/a> now clearly in play, as I reported in last night&#8217;s SBJ Unpacks newsletter. (no paywall) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QLZO9pAwEx\">https:\/\/t.co\/QLZO9pAwEx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Fischer (@BenFischerSBJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenFischerSBJ\/status\/1240257109041844224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IOC yesterday said that they remain fully committed to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-140170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140170"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=140170"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=140170"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=140170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}