In a sports world that has strayed further and further from normalcy, the last major domino to fall was perhaps the loudest and the biggest.
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the pinnacle of sports and national pride, would not go on as planned this summer due to the spread of the coronavirus, the International Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday.
The IOC ruled that the games would be postponed "to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021," meaning athletes vying for a spot on any Olympic team may have at least another year to train or to try and qualify.