Calls from sporting organizations for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace on Saturday with USA Track and Field (USATF) and Brazil’s Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.
BERN, March 24 (Reuters) – A change of culture is needed at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to make decision-making more inclusive, an association representing 85,000 athletes around the world said on Tuesday, following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021.
The WPA – with members from the North American basketball, baseball, ice hockey and American football leagues as well as European soccer and Australian Rules football – said Afkari had been singled out because of his sporting success.
The Ice Hockey World Championships scheduled for Switzerland in May have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) said on Saturday.
“This is a harsh reality to face for the international ice hockey family, but one that we must accept,” IIHF President Rene Fasel said in a statement.
Terms of the deal were not released, but multiple reports peg it as a one-year, $25 million pact. The Indianapolis Colts officially announced the signing of quarterback Philip Rivers on Saturday, handing the keys of the franchise to the 16-year veteran.
The federation, in a letter to United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) chief executive Sarah Hirshland, asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone the Games, which are scheduled to run from July 24 to Aug.
“He has been unjustly targeted by the Iranian authorities who want to make an example out of a popular, high-profile athlete and intimidate others who might dare exercise their human right to participate in a peaceful protest,” it said.
“Based on clear evidence, Afkari stabbed to death an innocent man. The court issued the death sentence based on strong evidence and the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence,” the judiciary said in a statement carried by Iranian media last week. He has confessed at the court.
At that point, it’s possible the NBA could cut or suspend salaries with the league still shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a league memo sent Friday to the teams, Wojnarowski reported. The next payday after April 1 would be April 15.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should review plans to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympics during the coronavirus pandemic and ensure dialog with athletes, the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) and the World Players Association (WPA) said on Saturday.
The 42-year-old on Friday made it official that he would leave the New England Patriots – where he spent 20 seasons and won six Super Bowls – to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a reported one year, $30 million contract.
“The horrific act of executing an athlete can only be regarded as a repudiation of the humanitarian values that underpin sport,” said World Players Association (WPA) director Brendan Schwab in a statement.
The 27-year-old Greco-Roman wrestler faces two death sentences after being convicted of stabbing a water security guard to death and other charges relating to anti-government protests in 2018, according to state media.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organizers still insist the July 24-Aug. struggling to control the spread of the flu-like virus. 9 showpiece will go ahead as planned despite Europe and the U.S.
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“We are extremely concerned that Navid’s execution is imminent, given the Iranian Judiciary’s record in such cases and the way they have previously carried out political execution,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of U.S.-based The Center for Human Rights in Iran.
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World Players Association (WPA) executive director Brendan Schwab said that, while he was happy with the decision to postpone the Games, the delay in making it in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic made the IOC look almost naive.
the football leagues in Europe are closing down because of the pandemic, the IOC was looking almost incredibly hopeful to the extent of being naive.” (Writing by Brian Homewood Editing by Toby Davis) “The World Players Association has affiliates throughout the world and when sports of the level of the NBA, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, international rugby…