{"id":140735,"date":"2020-03-23T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=140735"},"modified":"2020-03-23T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:05:48","slug":"canada-and-australia-will-not-send-athletes-to-tokyo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/canada-and-australia-will-not-send-athletes-to-tokyo-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and Australia will not send athletes to Tokyo 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has become the first country to warn that it won\u2019t send its athletes to the Olympics Games\u00a0unless they are postponed for a year, as pressure builds to delay the Games due to the\u00a0coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Olympic committee (AOC), meanwhile, has told its athletes to prepare to compete in the Olympics\u00a0in the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamCanada?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamCanada<\/a> will not send athletes to Games in summer 2020 due to COVID-19 risks.<\/p>\n<p>?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKmI2rbyeO\">https:\/\/t.co\/AKmI2rbyeO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8McEbgirVp\">pic.twitter.com\/8McEbgirVp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Team Canada (@TeamCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamCanada\/status\/1241901396149952512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 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>Canada has become the first country to warn that it won\u2019t send its athletes to the Olympics Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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-140735","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\/140735","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140735"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=140735"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=140735"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=140735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}