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"A place where we could all go and put on a show and tie those two worlds together would be great." Bowyer, who is 13th in the Cup standings, ran well at the defunct Nashville Superspeedway, which was located in Gladeville. He won the 2005 Busch Series race there and runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 when it became the Na- tionwide Series. While he obviously liked the track, Bowyer did not care for its location Interstate 840. "Nashville Superspeedway would've worked; everything about that place was awesome," Bowyer said. "It was a top-notch, a beautiful facility.

The only knock on it was it was just too far out. I loved the racetrack in the sense that I ran well there, but I didn't like that I couldn't go and eat dinner in downtown or roll into Tootsie's after a win and cel- ebrate. It was called Nashville, but it really wasn't in Nashville." The fairgrounds' location makes it a far better Bowyer said. "It's in your backyard," he said. "NASCAR would own Nashville with a race there.

That track would be epic." Awards show is proof NASCAR already returned to Nash- ville, in a sense. The NASCAR Cup Championship Awards Show was at Music City Center in December and was a big hit. The show will be back this year. "Obviously, championship week there was very well received with the way everybody came out for that," said NASCAR Cup driver Ricky Stenhouse who was born in Memphis. "A lot of our core fans love going to Nashville in general.

If NASCAR goes there, I think it can be kind of a great one-stop vaca- tion for a lot of our fans." Stenhouse also likes the idea of add- ing a smaller track and venue to the NASCAR circuit. The proposed capac- ity at the fairgrounds track is 30,000. "The short track is something that always puts on a good show," he said. "It would be nice to have a ticket be at a premium again kind of like Bristol was for a long time." Reach Mike Organ at 615-259-8021 or on Twitter NASCAR Continued from Page 4B "I'm telling you as a fan of country music and as a fan of NASCAR since I was a kid, I couldn't think of a better place to have a racetrack than Nashville," Cup series driver Clint Bowyer says. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Amid mounting pressure from ath- letes and national governing bodies, the International Olympic Committee is now considering whether to post- pone or otherwise alter the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and it has set a deadline for its decision.

In a letter to athletes released Sun- day, IOC president Thomas Bach wrote that the IOC has ruled out canceling the Games altogether but is now exploring alternative ways to stage the Tokyo Olympics including postponement to the ongoing coronavirus pan- demic. Bach indicated that the IOC is dis- cussing the matter with key stakehold- ers and are that a decision will be made within the next four weeks. with all the stakeholders, we have started detailed discussions today to complete our assessment of the rapid development of the world- wide health situation and its impact on the Olympic Games, including a sce- nario of Bach wrote in the letter. are working very hard, and we are that we will have these discussions within the next four statement represents a shift in the messaging on the Olympics, which are scheduled to begin July 24 in Tokyo. For months, the IOC and Bach have dismissed even the possibility of a postponement as mere speculation and declined to spec- ify any contingency plans for the Games.

The change in stance comes amid mounting pressure from across the Olympic movement to postpone the Games, most likely to 2021. In recent days, national Olympic committees from Brazil and Norway, among others, have called for the Games to be postponed as have USA Swimming and USA Track and Field, the two largest sport governing bodies within the Olympic movement in the U.S. Bach reiterated Sunday that he be- lieves it is to make a deci- sion on the Tokyo Games immediately, given the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus, which has infected hun- dreds of thousands of people around the world. He also acknowledged that postpon- ing the Games an extremely com- plex number of critical venues needed for the Games could potentially not be available Bach wrote. situations with millions of nights al- ready booked in hotels is extremely dif- to handle, and the international sports calendar for at least 33 Olympic sports would have to be adapted.

These are just a few of many, many more chal- Even if those logistical obstacles could be overcome, postponing the Games would still cause substantial ripple throughout the global sports community, both for the 11,000 athletes who were scheduled to com- pete and sports federations and leagues around the world. It would also have cial implications for several major stakeholders, including the IOC and the Japanese government. The Olympics have, to this point, only not gone forward as planned dur- ing periods of war. IOC sets deadline for decision on Olympics Tom Schad USA TODAY are working very hard, and we are that we will have these discussions within the next four IOC President Thomas Bach wrote in a letter to athletes released Sunday. AP.