FAYETTEVILLE — By first avowing, then deliberating, listening and finally postponing, the International Olympics Committee and the Olympics Games provided their greatest worldwide service.
Scheduled to span from July 24-Aug. 9 in Tokyo, the Games were officially postponed until 2021, the IOC announced Tuesday.
Some asserted the Olympics should have been postponed as the coronavirus pandemic now postponing them began taking lives in China and then Italy and Spain.
They have a point.
But there is the counterpoint certainly wrestled within the United States, even as epidemiologists and other health experts concur the coronavirus in our country is in early ascent rather than peaking, soon to diminish.