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Will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games be cancelled?


Will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games be cancelled?  

48 members have voted

  1. 1. Will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games be cancelled?

    • Yes, the Olympic Games will be cancelled
      5
    • No, the Olympic Games will be held
      43


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6 hours ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Without starting a discussion about vaccination. The point of vaccinating is not to stop people getting the virus, which is impossible, but to stop or at least highly reduce the more serious/dangerous illnesses. If we reach the point, where the virus is really nothing more but a cold, we have won.  

It's both.  The flu is not a long term issue for most people who get it, but for some, it can still be deadly.  If the vaccines can reduce the overall severity of symptoms, that's a huge win, but the idea is also to reduce the number of potential carriers.  May not be able to reach herd immunity since that would require literally billions of people to be vaccinated, but as long as we're trending in that direction, we're slowly but surely getting to the other side of this pandemic.

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1 hour ago, Triplecast said:

If Dick Pound says it then it’s safe for me to book my vacation time.

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Why is Japan is so slow in vaccinating her population. According to the link below, Japan has only able to vaccinate with atleast 1 dose 2.7% of her population, compared to India 9.7%, Brazil 13%, UK 52%, Germany 32%.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

 

Can the IOC hire any nurses or any medical personnel from other countries if Japan can't allocate any extra nurses. What's the timeline for Pfizer vaccinating all the athletes, will this assuage the Japanese population

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Japan really have been awful in getting vaccines. Their one of the richest nations in the world with a very high elderly population and lots of circulating cases( unlike Australia and New Zealand.)

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39 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Japan really have been awful in getting vaccines. Their one of the richest nations in the world with a very high elderly population and lots of circulating cases( unlike Australia and New Zealand.)

Opinion | Why is Japan failing so badly on vaccinations? - The Washington Post

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Don’t know if anyone else has visited/noticed this yet, but it looks interesting. Link: https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/fanzone/

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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The US athletics team cancelled their pre-Olympic training in Japan that was scheduled to take place in July. The federations are clearly getting more scared of the current COVID situation in Japan. 

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14 minutes ago, Vektor said:

The US athletics team cancelled their pre-Olympic training in Japan that was scheduled to take place in July. The federations are clearly getting more scared of the current COVID situation in Japan. 

That’s worrying. The minute USOC or Biden says withdrawal should happen then it will happen. 

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1 hour ago, Vektor said:

The US athletics team cancelled their pre-Olympic training in Japan that was scheduled to take place in July. The federations are clearly getting more scared of the current COVID situation in Japan. 

that's not the reason...

 

the athletes simply refused to have a 15-day quarantine period before the training camp, the the camp itself and maybe another quarantine after voming home from Japan (which currently is the required procedure in many Countries)...

 

if they accepted that situation, they would miss all the lucrative DL and Continental Tour meets scheduled before and after the training camp...

 

the athletes and their federation (and especially the USTF) don't give a crap about the current Japanese situation since they have got their vaccination (all those who wanted) with the very effective Moderna or Pfizer vaccines and they wouldn't have any contact with the Japanese population in any case during that camp nor the Olympics...

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