The NCAA Board of Governors is supporting a plan that will allow athletes to earn money for their names, images and likenesses without involvement from the NCAA, schools or conferences. The proposed rule changes will still have to be voted on by NCAA membership at its next convention in January, and the NCAA said it will ask Congress to help keep states from passing their own compensation laws and to come up with a national standard.
The head of the International Olympics Committee’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics said today he disagrees with suggestions by some scientists and doctors that a vaccine for COVID-19 is needed to hold the games. John Coates, an International Olympic Committee member from Australia who is a lawyer, said he had seen the opinion but didn’t agree.
On Tuesday, Japan Medical Association president Yoshitake Yokokura said it would only be possible for the Olympics to go ahead in July 2021 if the infections were under control, not only in Japan, but globally.