`It`s bigger than all of us`: GB athletes unite in support of Olympic delay
(The Guardian Sports News)

IOC announce Tokyo Games postponed until next year`Resources must be used to fight virus, not sport event´Britain´s leading athletes have endorsed the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until 2021, with the triathlete Alistair Brownlee, the swimmer Adam Peaty and the heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson among those to say that sport should take a back seat in the midst of the global pandemic.Brownlee, who was hoping to win his third successive gold medal this summer, told the Guardian that while the International Olympic Committee had taken too long to make a decision he was pleased it had done the right thing. `It is one of the oldest adages around that athletes have to be super cut-throat and very selfish, and that is true,` he said. `But right now all the resources that can possibly fight this virus must be used for that and not on a sporting event.` Continue reading...