The Australian Olympic Committee notified athletes that they "should prepare for a Tokyo Olympic Games in the northern summer of 2021," according to a press release relayed by NBC Sports' Nick Zaccardi on Sunday night:
Sunday morning, the International Olympic Committee set a self-imposed four-week deadline to make a decision on the 2020 Summer Games as the coronavirus pandemic continues worldwide:
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee released a joint statement responding to the IOC's deadline:
The Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committees announced earlier Sunday evening that they will not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics unless the event is postponed until 2021:
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe commented Sunday that the decision will have to be made to postpone the 2020 Summer Games if it can't be held in its "complete form":
There have been several requests for the IOC to postpone the Olympics, including from USA Swimming and USA Track & Field:
USA Today reported Sunday morning that nearly 75 percent of 125 athletes who met in a town hall with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee voiced support to postpone the Olympics.
The event is scheduled to begin on July 24 and run through Aug. 9 in Tokyo.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has been contracted by over 335,000 people globally and 14,641 people have died, according to CNN's numbers obtained by Johns Hopkins University.
