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XtraTime Web Desk: India's pride in athletics PT Usha breaks her silence on the rescheduling of the Olympic games next summer for the Coronavirus pandemic. “The Olympics can wait. When you see the happenings around you, especially the sad situation in Italy where thousands of lives have been lost, you feel so emotional. “We are staying positive, hoping that this would go away from this world soon. We are happy that efforts are being made here to ensure that the deadly virus does not reach the third stage,” she said. With Canada and Australia pulling out from this July's Olympics, it is now almost certain that Tokyo 2020 will have to be postponed. The International Olympic Committee is also thinking of such a step. Usha feels that having the Olympics in mid-2021 would be ideal. “There are some who want the Olympics to be held in that specific four-year cycle but considering the coronavirus situation all over the world, I feel it should be postponed to next year and all the countries should be able to send their best athletes,” said Usha. “The Olympics is not something we should be in a hurry to have, even if there are a couple of positive coronavirus cases in the Games, if they are held this year-end, they will have a huge negative impact,” she added.