The 2020 Henley Royal Regatta has been canceled and will not be postponed. The 2021 Regatta will take place June 29 through July 4.
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The 2020 Olympic Games were officially postponed Tuesday morning following a call between Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
Monday evening the United States Olympic Committee issued a statement saying "...the path toward postponement is the most promising" following a survey of American Olympic hopefuls.
The decision by both the Canadian and Australian Olympic Committees not to send athletes to Tokyo this summer significantly increases the pressure to postpone or cancel the 2020 Games.
With the cancellation Friday of the ACRA Championship, the 2020 collegiate season has been officially eliminated.
USRowing announced Tuesday afternoon the postponement of Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials II. The announcement came after statements from the IOC and FISA outlining their plan to proceed with the Olympics and continue to work together to assign remaining Olympic spots.
All last week, a cascading series of COVID-19 driven cancelations and postponements of the spring rowing schedule on the high school, collegiate, and national team events, has left athletes and coaches on all levels uncertain about their rowing futures. That uncertainty grew for national team aspirants with the FISA decision to cancel all remaining Olympic events.
Since launching a decade ago, the George Pocock Rowing Foundation’s Erg Ed program has introduced more than 125,000 students to the benefits of rowing.
