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7975 Australian Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll said athletes should prepare for the Tokyo Games in 2021. 澳大利亚奥委会首席执行官马特·卡罗尔说，运动员应该为2021年举办的东京奥运会做准备。
7976 "The athletes desperately want to go to the games," Carroll told reporters in Sydney on Monday, "but they also take onboard their own personal health." 卡罗尔于本周一（3月23日）在悉尼接受记者采访时说：“运动员们都非常想参加奥运会，但他们也很重视自己的身体健康。”
7977 "We need to give our athletes that certainty," he added, "and that's what we've done." 他补充道：“我们需要给我们的运动员确定的消息，这就是我们所做的。”
7978 The Summer Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world, typically bringing more than 10,000 athletes from around the world together every four years, The New York Times reports. 据《纽约时报》报道，夏季奥运会是世界上规模最大的体育赛事，每四年举办一届，有来自世界各地的一万多名运动员参加。
7979 It's extremely rare for the Summer or Winter Olympics to be postponed or canceled. 夏季或冬季奥运会被推迟或取消的情况极为罕见。
7980 Since 1896, when the modern Olympic Games began, it has happened only six times—and it usually requires a war. 自1896年现代奥运会开始以来，这种情况只发生过6次，而且通常发生在战争时期。
7981 The Olympic Games were canceled during World War I and World War II. 奥运会在第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战期间被取消。
7982 The 1940 Summer Games, scheduled to take place in Tokyo, were moved to Helsinki , Finland due to war, and they were later canceled altogether. 原定于1940年在东京举行的夏季奥运会，由于战争原因举办地改为芬兰赫尔辛基，之后被完全取消。
7983 The current coronavirus pandemic marks the first time the competition has ever been temporarily postponed for a reason other than war. 此次因新冠肺炎疫情推迟奥运会是首次由于战争以外的原因而暂时推迟这一赛事。
7984 1916 Summer Olympics // Berlin, Germany 1916年德国柏林夏季奥运会（一战期间）