Will the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games be cancelled?

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8 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

That’s good. 
 

More likely Japan is is preparing that People travelling from the highest risk countries to simply hotel quarantine outside of Tokyo for 10-14 days before being allowed near the City. They must be plenty of rural hotels that could isolate all the staff throughout the quarantine and for 10-14 days after to prevent an increased risk to the Local population. 

Quarantines are not as necessarily with frequent testing.  We don't need to talk about India pulling out of the Olympics as if there's no way of knowing who does or doesn't have COVID and we won't know for 2 weeks.  As long as health and safety protocols are in place and followed (that's much easier said than done), the risks can be minimized and the fears of the Olympics being a super-spreader event will be unfounded.  The strain it puts on the Japanese medical system is a separate issue, but certainly one that needs to be dealt with.

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State of emergency in Tokyo will be extended by at least one more week.

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1107423/state-of-emergency-may-be-extended-tokyo

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RTE News has just announced all Irish athletes at Olympics and Paralympics will be offered the Pfizer vaccine before the games after a deal between Pfizer and the IOC. 

[Oldira 88]

7 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

RTE News has just announced all Irish athletes at Olympics and Paralympics will be offered the Pfizer vaccine before the games after a deal between Pfizer and the IOC. 

Brillant News. Will come as a big relief to our prospective Olympians.

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2 hours ago, Oldira said:

Brillant News. Will come as a big relief to our prospective Olympians.

Agreed.  Supply is starting to exceed demand in the United States, so they can definitely start looking elsewhere for people to vaccinate.  Kudos to Pfizer

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Over 200,000 people have signed petition about cancelling the Games

 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1107483/tokyo-2020-bach-visit-in-may-difficult

 

Those people are too desperate and still thinks that Games can be cancelled a little bit more than 2 months to go....

[AustralianFan 29]

The Tokyo Games are going ahead in a unique Olympic Bubble which they have been preparing meticulously for 12 months for on the basis of NO VACCINE being available.

 

The fact there is now a vaccine available  is a is a bonus for the organisers.

 

The Games are going ahead in Tokyo in 75 days time, as planned.

 

A petition is not going to change anything.

 

The Japanese Prime Minister just said last week to the US President that the Games are going ahead as planned in Tokyo.

 

The Japanese Organising Committee just said it.

 

 

The International Olympic Committee just said it.

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‘The Games will go ahead’: Coates shuts down talk of Tokyo cancellation

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We’ve spent the first half of last year identifying all the worse-case scenarios, we’ve spent the next six months looking at the counter  measures. We’re implementing those countermeasures, they have all been predicated on no vaccines. That situation has improved, the Games are going ahead.

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There are no hypotheticals, there is no Plan B. The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead come July 23, according to John Coates, as the IOC backs its COVID protocols and vaccination program to trump the potential of a coronavirus outbreak.

 

Coates, who is vice-president of the International Olympic Committee as well as president of the Australian Olympic Committee, said on Saturday that there had been no talk about a late cancellation of the Games by planners or the Japanese government, even as emergency restrictions in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto were extended until the end of the month.

 

With the IOC now striking deals with major vaccine manufacturers, to complement already running programs across the world, Coates suggested some 90 per cent of the attending athletes would be vaccinated.

 

Under the IOC Playbook, they are strictly segregated from the Japanese public, with a decision on whether local fans can attend to be made closer to the Games.

 

“We don’t think that’s the case. At the moment, the Games will go ahead, there’s no need for us to be hypothetical,” Coates said.

 

“We’ve spent the first half of last year identifying all the worse-case scenarios, we’ve spent the next six months looking at the countermeasures.“

 

“We’re implementing those countermeasures, they have all been predicated on no vaccines.”

 

”That situation has improved, the Games are going ahead.”

 

Coates denied the IOC was putting the health of athletes and Japanese citizens at risk for commercial reasons, or as part of a vanity project for Games officials.
 

He said the Olympics had always been about the athletes and that could never be more true than in Tokyo, where they will live and compete with little outside social interaction.

 

“If we were doing that, we would have pushed ahead with them last year. We didn’t,” Coates said.

 

“The motivation is so these athletes can pursue what they have been dreaming of ... I don’t want these kids to miss the one opportunity they may have in their lifetime. It’s so these kids can fulfil their dream.“

 

“I was at the Australian Rowing Championships four weeks ago, they are just desperate to compete. They knew the parents aren’t going, they just want to compete, want to test themselves. That’s what most of it is all about.”

By Phil Lutton  May 8, 2021

Credit: Brisbane Times - click to read more

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For the first time Japanese PM says Olympics is not  first priority. Meanwhile if the cases continue to increase at this rate in Japan I wonder what will happen 

[Vektor 3,326]

Yeah, at this rate Japan will lose its grip on COVID at the worst possible time. They need to figure something out quick because this can get ugly, public opinion on the Games has never been this terrible, both in Japan and internationally.