and usa today sports columnist christine brennan in washington. will, we begin with you, this was a day, no one in japan wanted, certainly the japanese prime minister did not want. but this delay to the olympics is coming. >> he simply had no choice. the list of nations and athletes that were calling for the postponement of tokyo 2020 has been growing every single day. athletes saying they don't have time to train to prepare, not to mention the fact there are questions about whether it would be safe to bring athletes from 200 plus countries here in tokyo for, you know, a number of weeks, co-existing in very close quarters. and so now we are living a historic unprecedented moment. the olympics have never before been postponed. they have been canceled, during world war i and twice during world war ii, but the games have never been moved to a different date and this say whole new world for the japanese who certainly never would have expected this as recently as, you know, a month ago that they now will have to sort out really a nightmare of logistics

if you want to read more from christine brennan, her column today, the very front page of the sports action in usa today. norman in ridgway, colorado, good morning. good morning. good morning to you. i hope everyone is feeling good and staying healthy. i'm a lifelong republican that did not vote for trump because when i got into the voting booth , even though it hurt my heart to vote for hillary clinton, i only did it for one reason. , coulds, i asked myself trump run the government in the emergency? him being a novice with no ,xperience, my answer to myself and i am sure every american who voted asked this question. my answer was no. he does not have the kind of experience that he needs to run this government. believe inrters, i did nottionary manner have the development of their enough to asked themselves that question and answer it properly. so we find ourselves in a situation where we have a national emergency and the people elected by the good judgment of the people who elected them cannot handle this crisis. they are totally inept. trump thinks if he lies about it and his mind,

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christine brennan of "usa today" has covered every ol games, both summer and winter, since 1984. s us by skype fr washington, d.c. christine, how much of this decision was driven by the athletes' n concerns about their own health and welfare? >> john, all of it. this was stunning. when leaders don't lead, the athletes filled the void. and the international olympic committee president, thomas bach, is actually a former athlete, former olympic gold dalist. one would have thought he would the athlete's probe magnitude of he did not. he sat in his ivory tower and kept saying, we're not tking about postpoment. we're not talking about cancellation.at thetes took over. they started talking. i interviewed, some id, around the world. they couldn't traiif theyrd. could train, if they could go and swim or run or whatever, they wondered if they were being good citizens. not just americans, but athletes around the world. shouldn't they be sheltering in place? why are they out and no one else is? everything's being closed down aroundhem, yet they're trying to train for the most important event

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usaa columnist christine brennan is here with us.e athletes all the workers what are they going to do? >> mooark cuban has been saying we have to set up a fun. look at the men's possible tournament, so it's not just the professional arenas where hockey and basketball are played. of course, major league baseball stadiums. mlb will delay the start of sponsor inc. training two week. >> sprk traspring training. >> spring training, it's gone. florida and arizona the livelihoods for spring training. that's over. they won't have the full schedule and then losing that so it is enormous. i am sure we are talking about tens of million, hundreds of millions of dollars, just on that piece of it alone. >> now two nba players have actually tested positive for coronavirus. i am sure a lomt of other nba -- lot of other nba players are nervous, they're all sweating works knows what's going on? >> all the arenas and the fans nearby. the nba as you all know, are you so close to the fans. one of the great appeals is you can sit on the court or fear the

i want to bring in cnn sports analyst christine brennan and dr. sanjay gupta. christine, i'll start with you. we met covering the olympic games. you know that athletes, they're like finely tuned machines. these olympic athletes have set their timers to peak at the summer olympic games in 2020 in july. they were ready to go then. what is this news going to mean for them? >> john, interestingly the athletes actually forced this upon the leaders who did not lead, the international olympic committee, that really failed them. over the last three weeks as we have watched this virus grow and the outbreak grow around the world and the stories we have heard of tragedy and sickness, the athletes have been paying attention to that as well. and even though we're talking as will of course said about the july 24th start, the decision was made because of now. athletes need to train new. and increasingly we were hearing, "usa today" we were reporting this, athletes being shut out of swimming pools, olympic gold medalists kicked out of the ymca because their regular pool was clo

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