Rogers will compete in the 400 and 100 meters at the Paralympics in August.

North Yarmouth’s Ben True withdraws from the 5,000 at the U.S. track and field trials, while Sanford’s Rachel Schneider will avoid 100-plus degree temperatures.

The Sanford native will represent Team USA at the Tokyo Games after her top-three finish in the women’s 5,000 meters at the U.S. trials.

Schneider ranks among the top 10 U.S. women at three distances heading into next month’s U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials.

The petition was submitted to the IOC and others with Tokyo under a state of emergency and cases rising in Japan, where less than 2% of the population has been fully vaccinated.

Bach will instead visit “as soon as possible,” after Japan extends until May 31 a state of emergency that was to have expired Tuesday.