The Canadian Olympic Committee announced on Sunday that it will not send athletes to the scheduled Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Japan this summer due to health concerns brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
The COC is urging that the Olympics be postponed a year to 2021. Here is the full release from the Canadian Olympic Committee. "The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), backed by their Athletes’ Commissions, National Sports Organizations and the Government of Canada, have made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020.