Tackle March 2021

Grenada sprinter Kirani James
and we have to accept it. We have
to prepare as best as we can.”
Like the majority, he believes it
was a necessary evil.
“The way I see it is, for them to
postpone it, they’re taking this
pandemic very seriously and I’m
sure if there was a way where they
could keep it for this year, they
would have. Obviously, they exhausted
all their options. It is what
it is. At the end of the day, safety
and health trumps the Olympics
every time,” he added.
James won the 400m gold medal
at the 2012 Olympics in London,
after claiming gold at the World
Championships one year prior.
The sprinter then went on to claim
silver behind world-record breaker
Wayde van Niekerk at the 2016
Rio Olympic Games. James saw
his career severely hampered after
being diagnosed with Graves’
disease. He has since recovered
and was confident things were
progressing well for Tokyo before
the delays.
“Training was good. It was very
consistent, the workouts and
everything. Really it was just gearing
up for the start of the season in
April. Everything was on track.”
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