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On your marks ... will the Tokyo Olympics go ahead?

Steve Evans
Updated May 3 2021 - 10:07am, first published April 29 2021 - 4:30am
Javelin thrower Kelsey-Lee Barber is one of around 70 Australian athletes preparing for the Olympics. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Javelin thrower Kelsey-Lee Barber is one of around 70 Australian athletes preparing for the Olympics. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

We want to see our athletes head to Tokyo to compete and then return to Australia safely.

- Health Minister Greg Hunt

A year late, the postponed Olympics in Tokyo are now scheduled from July 23 to August 8. Because of the epidemic, the 2020 games will be held in 2021.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

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Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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