Covid Cases at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Benolympique 2,398]

 

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https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/La-guinee-renonce-aux-jo-de-tokyo-a-cause-du-coronavirus/1271990

[JamDH 44]

  On 7/21/2021 at 8:47 PM, Benolympique said:

 

Guinea retrait

https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/La-guinee-renonce-aux-jo-de-tokyo-a-cause-du-coronavirus/1271990

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It's being reported that the issue is more finances than anything, seems strange to only realise that less than 2 days from the OC if that is the case. I hope the athletes didn't just learn of this. It just gets worse and worse ?

[Orangehair43 254]

  On 7/21/2021 at 8:47 PM, Benolympique said:

 

Guinea retrait

https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/La-guinee-renonce-aux-jo-de-tokyo-a-cause-du-coronavirus/1271990

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Surely the IOC must have known about this for a few days being the ceremony is in less than 48 hours. 

[Benolympique 2,398]

  On 7/21/2021 at 9:03 PM, JamDH said:

It's being reported that the issue is more finances than anything, seems strange to only realise that less than 2 days from the OC if that is the case. I hope the athletes didn't just learn of this. It just gets worse and worse ?

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yes it is weird indeed, these olympic games are going to be a carnage with this covid. I'm afraid it will distort the results

[LDOG 2,418]

  On 7/21/2021 at 9:03 PM, JamDH said:

It's being reported that the issue is more finances than anything, seems strange to only realise that less than 2 days from the OC if that is the case. I hope the athletes didn't just learn of this. It just gets worse and worse ?

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It's not that strange, they probably were desperately trying to find funding until the last minute but couldn't gather it.

[intoronto 5,855]

Got to feel for their wrestler who qualified, I believe everyone else was on invitations.

[ChandlerMne 1,078]

  On 7/21/2021 at 8:45 PM, dodge said:

More pages than cases…

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True, lets just hope that it will remain the same for the rest of Games.

 

[Oldira 88]

  On 7/21/2021 at 9:06 PM, Benolympique said:

yes it is weird indeed, these olympic games are going to be a carnage with this covid. I'm afraid it will distort the results

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Not as much as the doping by countries like East Germany did.

[pdr4332 218]

  On 7/21/2021 at 10:44 PM, Oldira said:

Not as much as the doping by countries like East Germany did.

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Or the absence of countries in 1980 and 1984

[Vektor 3,326]

The boycotts of 1980 and 1984 are still worse, but at the very least it's quite clear how the boycotts impacted the results. It will be way harder to figure out how much COVID made a difference, which countries performed badly because they lost some key athletes, and which simply had a bad Games regardless of the virus.