Tokyo Summer Olympic Games 2020 News

[dcro 10,210]

Don't think anybody said it here, but it has been confirmed, athletes testing positive will be excluded from the competition. It will be so 'fun'.

[Orangehair43 252]

 

[Olympian1010 8,053]

 

[mrv86 3,151]

On 05/02/2021 at 14:43, dcro said:

Don't think anybody said it here, but it has been confirmed, athletes testing positive will be excluded from the competition. It will be so 'fun'.

Exactly, let's see how many wins by default or null matches in direct elimination events 

[pdr4332 218]

5 hours ago, mrv86 said:

Exactly, let's see how many wins by default or null matches in direct elimination events 

Hopefully the Olympics will have the same fair and transparent process to decide about disqualifications which debuted on last year's US Open... 

 

/sarcasm

[dcro 10,210]

The thing is, even if every single athlete gets vaccinated beforehand (not gonna happen), vaccines are still only about 90% efficient at best.

 

That leaves around 1000 athletes that could potentially get excluded (in this, the most optimistic scenario).

 

[Bearas 522]

Today the Lithuanian Olympic team and candidates for Tokyo has been vaccinated from Covid as priority.

https://www.delfi.lt/sportas/kitos-sporto-sakos/prioritetine-tvarka-pradeti-vakcinuoti-lietuvos-olimpieciai.d?id=86458651

[Orangehair43 252]

19 minutes ago, Bearas said:

Today the Lithuanian Olympic team and candidates for Tokyo has been vaccinated from Covid as priority.

https://www.delfi.lt/sportas/kitos-sporto-sakos/prioritetine-tvarka-pradeti-vakcinuoti-lietuvos-olimpieciai.d?id=86458651

I can see that backfiring.  No way will some countries even consider this.

[LDOG 2,418]

1 hour ago, Bearas said:

Today the Lithuanian Olympic team and candidates for Tokyo has been vaccinated from Covid as priority.

https://www.delfi.lt/sportas/kitos-sporto-sakos/prioritetine-tvarka-pradeti-vakcinuoti-lietuvos-olimpieciai.d?id=86458651

Any opinion from the public?

[Bearas 522]

8 hours ago, LDOG said:

Any opinion from the public?

Very mixed, but obviously a lot of unhappy citizens as not all vulnerable received the vaccines yet.