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Team Canada Won't Send Athletes to 2020 Tokyo Olympics Due to COVID-19

Bleacher Report | March 23, 2020

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Canada is pulling its athletes out of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

On Sunday, the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committees said they would not send their athletes to Japan this summer and urged the International Olympic and Paralympic Committees to postpone the Games for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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BREAKING: The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee will refuse to send athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if the event is not postponed.The 2020 Games are currently set to begin on July 24. News release: https://t.

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