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Sportshour: What next for the Olympics?

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What next for the Olympics?

28/03/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, What next for the Olympics?

We discuss the postponement of the 2020 Olympics and what's next for those taking part.

We discuss the postponement of the 2020 Olympics due to the coronavirus and debate what's next for those taking part. We cross to Tokyo to discuss the challenges ahead in 2021.

Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics moves by a year - what happens next? We devote the first half of the programme to an in-depth look at this week's decision to postpone Tokyo 2020 by a year. We cross to Japan's capital city to hear how the decision has been received and to discuss the challenges they face in staging a delayed games. Canada's double Olympic champion, Rosie MacLennan, tells us postponement rather than cancellation was the right thing to do but admits it will spell the end for a number of people's Olympic Dreams. We chat to multiple Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead and the BBC's athletics commentator Ed Harry.

No Formula 1, No Problem - The first EIGHT races of the 2020 Formula 1 season have now either been cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus pandemic. To get around a lack of racing some of the sports' drivers have been taking part in online racing in the F1 Esports Series. We speak to McLaren driver Lando Norris on "crashing" in Bahrain, his friendship with Max Verstappen and how he's self-isolating at home. 

Don't call me Mr, call me Carlo - Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti called a vulnerable fan this week as part of the club's drive to help people cope during the coronavirus pandemic. They ended up chatting about football, nextflix and family. Mark Cruise tells us all about what it was like to get a call from the man he calls Mr Ancelotti.

We hear from England and Lyon defender Lucy Bronze after she won the BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year award for the second time and we talk to BBC's Sarah Mulkerrins on how the coronavirus pandemic is hitting women's football.

Sporting Witness - this week we go back to March 1982 when Julie Moss crawled over the finish line at the IronMan World Championship in Hawaii.  She was a remarkable second in her first competitive race.

Picture:A man wearing a face mask walks before the logo of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games displayed on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo on March 24, 2020 (Getty Images)

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