The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has said its decision to pull out of the 2020 Tokyo Games was unilateral and made without the knowledge of Canada or the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
FILE PHOTO: The Olympic rings are pictured at dusk through a steel fence, at the waterfront area of the Odaiba Marine Park, after the postponing of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease , in Tokyo, Japan March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
The double-withdrawal prompted speculation that the two national Olympic committees may have acted in concert with the IOC to give the global body leverage to postpone Tokyo.“Any assertions that a decision by the Australian Olympic Committee to tell its athletes to plan for a Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 was done in concert with either the International Olympic Committee or the Canadian Olympic Committee are completely incorrect,” the AOC said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
The IOC’s announcement came a day after Australian authorities announced a slew of measures aimed at containing the coronavirus, including travel curbs and quarantine requirements at national and state borders.The effect of the government measures and the IOC’s scenario planning prompted a special meeting of the AOC’s executive board last Monday.
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