DENVER, Colo. – Leaders of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee are sticking closely to the IOC's position that it remains too early for drastic decisions, even as calls grow for postponing the Tokyo Games because of the coronavirus. “We'd concur with them to say we need more expert advice than we have today,” Susanne Lyons, the chair of the USOPC, said during a conference call Friday. “And we don't have to make a decision.
The games are four months from now.” In theory, no national Olympic federation has more power to alter the shape of an Olympics than the USOPC, which brings 550 athletes and its billion-dollar broadcaster, NBC, to the show every two years.