Olympics: 2016 women's pole vault champ, IOC critic to carry torch

Rio de Janeiro Olympics women's pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi, who has criticized pushing ahead with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will still take part in Thursday's Olympic flame handover ceremony, Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto revealed Wednesday.The Greek athlete slammed the International Olympic Committee in a Tuesday interview with Reuters and on her private Twitter feed for asking athletes to train as usual for the Tokyo Olympics amid fears over the spread of the new coronavirus."This is not about how things will be in 4 months," she wrote on Twitter. "This is about h…READ FULL ARTICLE