Olympic rowing champion Nick Green led his country's delegation at London 2012. FMTNews Olympic
MELBOURNE: Australia chef de mission and Olympic rowing champion Nick Green has cast doubt on the Tokyo Games, saying it would be “very difficult” to hold them as the world grapples with the global coronavirus pandemic.
“Only the world wars have stopped the Olympics from proceeding aside from a few boycotts here and there. “My initial instinct was this will be managed and it will be business as usual pretty quickly,” he said of the virus, which has now infected over 212,000 people and caused 8,700 deaths in 164 nations.
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