{"id":78,"date":"2021-01-28T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=88825"},"modified":"2021-01-28T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T07:38:31","slug":"olympics-2021-swimming-qualifier-in-tokyo-deferred-until-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/olympics-2021-swimming-qualifier-in-tokyo-deferred-until-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics 2021: Swimming  qualifier in Tokyo deferred until may"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday organizers said that the swimming Olympic qualification in Tokyo has been postponed until may due to Covid restrictions in Japan<\/p>\n<p>The organizers of Tokyo 2020 and swimming\u2019s world governing body FINA said the qualifiers that, \u201cThe decision to delay was taken due to number of reasons including sustaining the ongoing efforts in Japan to come out of the current scenario as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently Japan has sealed its borders to foreign non-residents as the country is battling against the third wave of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Previously initial restrictions of Tokyo had allowed foreign athletes to come for Olympics but it got changed earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The deferment of the passing event comes in the midst \u00a0of waning public help for the 2020 games, which have already been postpone due to pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday organizers said that the swimming Olympic qualification in Tokyo has been postponed until may due to Covid restrictions\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":23221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[638],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}