Caitlyn Jenner spoke to ET about what it means when the Olympics are cancelled or postponed.
2:31 PM PDT, March 24, 2020feels for the athletes whose Olympic dreams have been put on hold.
"Obviously we have to do what's right, and I think they're probably doing what's right by postponing it a year," Jenner says."But from an athlete standpoint, it's devastating." Jenner referenced the 1980 Summer Olympics which were held in Moscow, and boycotted by the United States and over 60 other countries."These athletes had been training for four years, and then we don't even go," she recalls."It can be devastating for an athlete."
On Tuesday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revealed that he and the International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach have agreed to delay the 2020 Summer Olympics by one year. The event was supposed to start on July 24. both announced they would not send their athletes to the 2020 competition in Japan as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus. The U.S.
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