Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News

[Vektor 3,326]

41 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

The Games will happen with or without the approval of the japanese people. They should have thought of this 10 years ago, or whenever they got the Games. If they indeed pull a cancelation stunt, Japan should be forbidden to host any major events for the next 70 years and will have to live with their failures.  Oh right, they can't, because suicides will always be bigger, than any Covid there...

The people of Japan have agree to host the Olympics under normal circumstances. Not during a worldwide pandemic. Or the worst worldwide disaster/event humanity has faced since the second world war. With the way things are going, it looks like IOC should have accepted a long time ago that this event (and maybe Winter 2022) is a lost cause and started preparing for 2024. 

[phelps 8,456]

48 minutes ago, dcro said:

Or not. Holding Games at any cost would make IOC look really bad. It could spell the end of the Olympics (let's not forget they had their problems long before any of this started).

but this is already the last edition of the Summer Olympics...

 

or do you dare to still name "Olympic" that farce in 2024 with breakdance, canoe extreme, the 35km team race walk and all the other "artistic", urban and youth sh*t they enforced instead of throwing it out... 

 

so, how could the ioc reputation be worse than what already is?  

[rybak 3,344]

One, interesting thing comes to my mind. We can see that Middle East countries and Qatar especially somehow save some summer sports and Olympic qualifications for now. They hold part of tennis Australian Open qualifications, one of judo masters, will hold table tennis Asian qualifications etc. Maybe Olympic Games should be moved to Qatar from Japan if Japanese people fear coronavirus so much? Pandemic is under control in Qatar, they have many moneys, couple sport venues, good base of hotels. What do you think about this?

[Benolympique 2,423]

2 minutes ago, rybak said:

One, interesting thing comes to my mind. We can see that Middle East countries and Qatar especially somehow save some summer sports and Olympic qualifications for now. They hold part of tennis Australian Open qualifications, one of judo masters, will hold table tennis Asian qualifications etc. Maybe Olympic Games should be moved to Qatar from Japan if Japanese people fear coronavirus so much? Pandemic is under control in Qatar, they have many moneys, couple sport venues, good base of hotel, what do you think about this?

I had a reflection like you, but in China or Australia since they have the infrascturctures of the old Olympic games

[rybak 3,344]

Just now, Benolympique said:

I had a reflection like you, but in China or Australia since they have the infrascturctures of the old Olympic games

Yes, they have experience and venues but Australia fear coronavirus even more than Japan and China doesn't allow any foreign people to enter to their country by long time, it seems impossible by now that any of these countries could hold Games. Same about Brazil, USA and Great Britain where virus isn't under control.

[Benolympique 2,423]

1 minute ago, rybak said:

Yes, they have experience and venues but Australia fear coronavirus even more than Japan and China doesn't allow any foreign people to enter to their country by long time, it seems impossible by now that any of these countries could hold Games. Same about Brazil, USA and Great Britain where virus isn't under control.

otherwise in France we have everything !!

[rybak 3,344]

1 minute ago, Benolympique said:

otherwise in France we have everything !!

But you will host the Games in 2024, so 

 

I don't see moving Olympic Games anywhere in Europe as situation isn't good in most of countries.

[NearPup 3,646]

Can’t wait for Doha to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympics sometimes in early Winter 2023 ?

[Olympian1010 8,276]

6 hours ago, Federer91 said:

The Games will happen with or without the approval of the japanese people. They should have thought of this 10 years ago, or whenever they got the Games. If they indeed pull a cancelation stunt, Japan should be forbidden to host any major events for the next 70 years and will have to live with their failures.  Oh right, they can't, because suicides will always be bigger, than any Covid there...

This is such a poor take, and that “joke” at the end is in extremely poor taste. 

[Olympian1010 8,276]

5 hours ago, phelps said:

but this is already the last edition of the Summer Olympics...

 

or do you dare to still name "Olympic" that farce in 2024 with breakdance, canoe extreme, the 35km team race walk and all the other "artistic", urban and youth sh*t they enforced instead of throwing it out... 

 

so, how could the ioc reputation be worse than what already is?  

I get being upset about new inclusions, especially when some of them are questionable, but throwing away the prestige of the entire Games over a few events is ridiculous.