Thursday, 7 January 2021
When you postpone an Olympic Games for the first time in peacetime it s hardly surprising that there is a whole host of unintended consequences that start to jump out at you. Fortunately, they are not all bad ones.
At the British Olympic Association (BOA), we are particularly proud of our heritage and history, and not least the part that British Olympians have played in creating that golden thread through time.
In the build up to the original 2020 Games much of our focus was on 1964 and the cohort of athletes that first competed in Tokyo with the Union flag on their vests. Such luminaries as Dame Mary Peters and Anita Lonsborough among them.