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USA Swimming urges USOPC to ask for delay of Tokyo Games

by AP National Writer
| March 20, 2020 1:03 PM

DENVER (AP) — The head of USA Swimming urged the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to push for a 12-month postponement of the Tokyo Games, signaling the first fissure between powerful American factions attempting to maneuver the U.S. team through the coronavirus crisis.

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