{"id":140390,"date":"2020-03-20T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=140390"},"modified":"2020-03-20T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:19:47","slug":"usa-swimming-calls-for-the-olympics-to-be-postponed-due-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/usa-swimming-calls-for-the-olympics-to-be-postponed-due-to-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Swimming calls for the Olympics to be postponed due to Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an official statement, USA Swimming has requested that &#8220;the U.S. Olympic &amp; Paralympic Committee advocate for the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by one year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This declaration comes after the IOC has confirmed that the Olympics\u2019 cancellation \u201cis not on the agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>USA Swimming respectfully requests that the U.S. Olympic &amp; Paralympic Committee advocate for the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q5bhUwi05q\">pic.twitter.com\/q5bhUwi05q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA Swimming (@USASwimming) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USASwimming\/status\/1241075841347366912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 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>They became the first US federation to seek a delay for the Tokyo Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"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":[103],"tags":[12543,7172],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-140390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympic-games","tag-coronavirus-en","tag-tokyo-2020-2"],"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\/140390","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140390"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=140390"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=140390"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=140390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}