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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Johnson decides against Olympics
Golfer instead will
pursue lucrative
FedEx Cup, his
manager announces
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
AP Photo/Ryan Kang
Dustin Johnson hits on the 12th hole during the
fi nal round of the Genesis Invitational golf tour-
nament at Riviera Country Club on Feb. 16, 2020,
in Los Angeles.
On the fence about the
Olympics at the start of the
year, Dustin Johnson decided
he won’t be going.
Johnson’s manager said in
a text message Monday that
the FedEx Cup playoffs hold
as much importance to John-
son as chasing a gold medal in
Tokyo this summer.
“I feel certain he would
choose otherwise if the tim-
ing were different, but feels
he is making the best decision
under the circumstances,”
said David Winkle of Ham-
bric Sports Management.
Johnson’s
name
was
removed from the Olym-
pic golf ranking Monday
afternoon.
At No. 5 in the world rank-
ing, he currently would have
been No. 3 among Americans
behind Brooks Koepka and
Justin Thomas. Countries are
allowed a maximum of four
players in golf provided they
are among the top 15 in the
world ranking.
Golfweek fi rst reported
Johnson’s decision.
Johnson was the leading
American for the 2016 Olym-
pics in Rio de Janeiro when he
decided at the last minute to
withdraw because of concerns
over the Zika virus.
This was more about the
FedEx Cup and the lucra-
tive prize Johnson has yet to
win.
The top prize is now worth
$15 million.
Asked about the Olympics
at the beginning of the year,
Johnson said he wasn’t sure
how his schedule would be in
the summer with the Tokyo
Games coming after the fi nal
major and before the FedEx
Cup playoffs.
“Having had a few close
calls in the playoffs, he really
wants to win them before his
time is done and feels that he
wouldn’t be giving himself the
best opportunity to do so if he
added a lengthy international
trip,” Winkle said.
Johnson plans to play fi ve
out of seven weeks through the
British Open. He then would
have a week off before head-
ing to Japan for the Olympics.
Now, he is contemplating the
3M Open in Minnesota after
returning from the British, and
then two weeks off before the
FedEx Cup playoffs.
Johnson nearly won the
FedEx Cup in 2016 until he
lost the 54-hole lead and lost
the FedEx Cup when Rory
McIlroy won the Tour Cham-
pionship and its then-$10 mil-
lion prize. He has spent 91
weeks at No. 1 in the world,
third only behind Tiger Woods
and McIlroy among active
players.
With just over three months
before Olympic qualifying
ends, the leading four Amer-
icans are Koepka, Thomas,
Patrick Cantlay and Webb
Simpson, following by Patrick
Reed and Woods. There are
still three majors, The Play-
ers Championship and a World
Golf Championship — all
offering big ranking points —
before qualifying ends on June
21 after the U.S. Open.
What’s next for the Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus spreads?
By STEPHEN WADE
Associated Press
TOKYO — The spreading virus
from China has been reported in
more than 60 countries and puts
the Tokyo Olympics at risk. The
Olympics are to open on July 24
— less than fi ve months away. The
Paralympics follow on Aug. 25.
IOC President Thomas Bach,
in an interview last week, said the
“IOC is fully committed to have
the opening ceremony there on
July 24th in Tokyo.” He declined
to speculate about a postpone-
ment, cancellation, or any combi-
nation of those possibilities. “I’m
not ready to add fuel to the fl ames
of speculation there in any way.”
Others are.
An Irish bookmaker last week
began taking bets: 4/6 the open-
ing ceremony will not go ahead in
Tokyo as scheduled, or 11/10 that
it will.
Senior IOC member Dick
Pound last week suggested Tokyo
and the IOC had roughly until the
end of May to announce a deci-
sion. Pound, a former International
Olympic Committee vice presi-
dent, said there’s no decision so
far and stressed talks were nearly
constant with the World Health
Organization.
“You just don’t postpone some-
thing on the size and scale of the
Olympics,” Pound told the Asso-
ciated Press. “There are so many
moving parts; so many countries,
so many different seasons and
competitive seasons, television
seasons. You can’t say: ‘We’ll do it
in October.’ It’s a big, big, big deci-
sion and you just can’t take it until
you have all the reliable facts on
which to base it.”
The virus has caused more than
3,000 deaths, the vast majority
in China. Japan has reported 12
deaths with almost 1,000 cases.
limits the way Sunday’s Tokyo
Marathon did. Preseason baseball
games are being played in empty
stadiums, soccer’s J-League has
suspended play, and a large Sumo
event will be held without fans.
Training for Tokyo’s 80,000 vol-
unteers has been postponed.
The next thing to watch
What about qualifying?
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro
Muto is holding a teleconference
Wednesday with the IOC exec-
utive board in Switzerland. The
14-member board along with Bach
made the big decisions.
There could be changes to the
torch relay, which is set to open
March 26 in Fukushima prefec-
ture, northeast of Tokyo. The event
is heavily sponsored by Coca-Cola
and Toyota. It might face crowd
Offi cials announced Monday
that an Olympic baseball quali-
fying event was postponed from
April to June.
Olympic qualifi ers have been
moved from China. Bach said that
many Chinese teams and athletes
are out of China and training else-
where: the table tennis team is in
Qatar, the women’s basketball
team is in Croatia, and wrestlers
are in Serbia.
Is late May a deadline?
Pound speculated that late
May was a deadline to decide on
Tokyo’s future. The call will be
made by the IOC executive board,
the WHO, and local organizers.
It seems reasonable that a deci-
sion will have to be made with two
months to go.
The Olympics have thousands
of moving parts. Sponsors who
have paid billions must activate
ad programs. More than 11,000
Olympic athletes and 4,400 for
the Paralympics have to know
their training schedules. Add to
that: fl ights, hotel reservations,
catering, ticketing, and broad-
cast schedules. Almost 75% of the
IOC’s income of $5.7 billion in a
four-year cycle is from broadcast
rights.
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