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LAUSANNE, Schweiz – International skating officials are considering canceling incoming week's concern amount skating championships in Tokyo, locution the thermonuclear crisis in Nihon is "very worrisome."

The International Skating Union initially said Yoyogi stadium had been unmarred by Friday's disrespectful earthquake, and the worlds would begin as designed on March 21. But the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex 170 miles from Tokyo has unnatural the voiding of more than 170,000 grouping and prompted fears of irradiation contamination. A land of crisis was declared Sun at added thermonuclear noesis plant.

The United States and individual dweller countries hit urged citizens to refrain travel to Japan. author took the additional travel of suggesting grouping leave Tokyo in housing irradiation reached the city. The French skating federation also brought home dweller champion Florent Amodio "as a preventative measure." Amodio was training in metropolis on the island of island aweigh of worlds.

The ISU said it "respected" the Japanese skating federation's want to go aweigh with worlds in Tokyo.

"However, the past developments since Saturday, in portion the developments in the Fukushima thermonuclear plant, are very worrisome," the ISU said in a evidence Sunday, "and also resulted in travel advisories from some countries to refrain traveling to Nihon until the status is settled."

The ISU said it is waiting for more aggregation from Japanese authorities, and will hit added evidence by Monday farewell at the latest.

U.S. Figure Skating said it, too, was monitoring the situation. The United States is sending 15 skaters to worlds, with Meryl Davis and Charlie White favorites to become the prototypal Americans to get a concern denomination in cover dance.

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