What They're Saying: Dick Pound

• by Soccer America , Feb 26, 2020

“As far as we all know, you’re going to be in Tokyo. All indications are at this stage that it will be business as usual. So keep focused on your sport and be sure that the IOC is not going to send you into a pandemic situation.”

-- Canadian Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee, with his message to the estimated 11,000 athletes expected to take part in the Olympics, which open July 24, and 4,400 bound for the Paralympics, which open Aug. 25. Pound estimated there is only two or three months to decide whether or not to cancel the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus outbreak. (AP)