Coronavirus: Question mark over 2021 Tokyo Olympics

For some athletes, today was the last chance to take part in the Tokyo Olympics. They are too old, too exhausted or too financially stretched to wait for another year.

One of them is 35-year-old Tetsuya Sotomura.

When I met him on a sweltering afternoon earlier this week he was still hard at it in a converted factory building in a north Tokyo suburb, flying high into the air, spinning and tumbling on a massive trampoline.

Back in 2008 Tetsuya placed 4th at the Beijing Olympics, just missing a bronze medal. Since then he’s fought injury that put him out of London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.

Tokyo was to be his last hurrah, a hometown Olympics to end his trampolining career on a high. But another year is just too much. (BBC)

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