FILE PHOTO - 2016 Rio Olympics - Hockey - Preliminary - Men's Pool A Britain v Australia - Olympic Hockey Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10/08/2016. Jamie Dwyer (AUS) of Australia competes. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted Olympic qualifying and put the whole Games in doubt but most athletes would be prepared to make big compromises to compete at Tokyo, Australia's field hockey gold medallist Jamie Dwyer has told Reuters.
The outbreak has infected over 242,000 people and killed nearly 10,000, bringing global sport to a virtual standstill and prompting calls for the July 24-Aug. 9 Olympics to be cancelled or postponed.
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