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Relieved US athletes welcome Olympic postponement

USA's Noah Lyles competes at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships. [AFP]

United States athletes welcomed the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, exhaling a collective sigh of relief tinged with disappointment as they began to set their sights on 2021.

The deadly coronavirus pandemic has swept into all 50 states of America, leaving US athletes’ years of carefully choreographed Olympic training plans in tatters.

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