Quaker2001

Is there a mathematical formula that should be used to determine what rate of infection makes it either acceptable or unacceptable to hold the Olympics? Sports leagues all shut down when the pandemic started because no one could be sure how to hold events and games safely. We've largely learned how to do that in the past year with increased testing and the proper health and safety protocols in place. And if it weren't for money and all the television rights, we probably still wouldn't have sports. It can easily be argued that it's a reckless and irresponsible decision to hold the Olympics this summer. But the IOC wants their television money, so if that means the Japanese organizers have to put measures in place to best ensure everyone's safety, they'll do that, even if it's going to cost a lot of money. In hindsight, perhaps it would have been wise for Tokyo 2020 to get pushed back another year (although that would have brought another set of challenges), but too late for that now. It's 2021 or bust at this point. Just because COVID is still out there does not imply there cannot be an Olympics this summer

Head of Tokyo Olympics again says games will not be canceled

It won't get postponed to next year. Very highly likely IMO that the Olympics happen this summer. We've heard before about government officials wanting to cancel them. I don't see it happening. They're just saying it to go along with public opinion.

Not until he gets himself an Olympic gold medal. Hard to argue with 5 world championships, but until he adds an Olympic win, he can only be considered one of the best and not necessarily the best.

Wouldn't work if they wanted to keep the full round robin. Too many matches to squeeze onto the schedule, especially since they added the mixed doubles. Right now, it's 12 draws each for men and women to get all the matches in. They'd need 17 draws apiece for 12 teams. Has to stay at 10

4 in the final end against Canada is a good way to do it. That was some impressive comeback by them to win

Similarly, if you go to Gymnastics, there's.. Gymnastics Men's Team Final All Apparatuses Starts at 6am EDT Play Gymnastics video Open info card for Gymnastics Gymnastics Men's Team Final Main Coverage Starts at 6am EDT Play Gymnastics video Open info card for Gymnastics Gymnastics Men's Team Final Team USA Tracker Starts at 6am EDT

My thing especially with an Olympics in Asia is that if something is on TV overnight, I can DVR it and watch it in the morning when I wake up. Can't always do that with the online streams. And better quality picture if it's on TV. But yes, always enjoy the little bonuses that streaming provides (i.e. multiple streams for 1 sport). Need to see how many screens I can have going at once. Might be a good excuse to upgrade my internet speed

At this point, every event is streamed live, so there's not necessarily any new information here that I don't already have from the competition schedule on the Tokyo site and other places that have more detail. The big thing for me will be the broadcast schedule, because that will really determine my work/sleep schedule. That's what I need to add to the spreadsheet, but we likely won't get that until early July once all the qualifiers are complete and the rest of the team sports are slotted, most notably beach volleyball since we can be sure NBC will manipulate that one to get the American teams playing in the TV windows they want.

Does anyone really think this is about the virus? Of course it's political. And yet, they'll still tell the world it's about the virus and their citizens will believe every word of it

It's tough when you get to the busier days. All depends on how much time you want to spend doing this, whether you're good with Excel or not! And I've been looking for the handball schedule, doesn't look like it's out yet. They had the draw to determine the groups earlier this week, but don't believe they have set the match schedule yet

There are column headings at the top. I tried to combine columns where I can to make the sheet a little bit neater and less cluttered. Best I can do to keep things organized, but also somewhat readable. Easier for the Winter Olympics where I could fit everything into 9 columns. With the Summer Olympics, there are a couple days where there might be 25 sports all in action on the same day.

Here's the one I had from 2018. Fewer events so it's a lot easier to manage, but the final version of the Tokyo spreadsheet will include TV times like this one has. Easier to plan out viewing and sleeping that way

I've been updating mine, including to add in matchups for most of the team sports. I'm also doing this from the standpoint of Eastern Time and US television. This is what mine looks like. And yes, I'll be happy to share this when we reach July..

I'm a total Excel nerd, so I used that to help plan my viewing (and sleep/work) schedule during the 2018 Olympics. Once more of the schedule gets set for Tokyo, I'll probably do the same thing. Much more difficult with the Summer Olympics given how many more events there are (that goes without saying), not to mention the time difference will make things interesting. I'm usually pretty good about dealing with a strange sleep schedule. Don't think I'd go so far as to match up with Tokyo day/night, but I imagine there will be at least a couple of days where I stay up all night and then sleep through most of the afternoon

This is why I like the crowd here.. I've been making spreadsheets (mostly to track the TV coverage) going so far back as Nagano in 1998. Been building one for Tokyo that has a big grid with all of the events as well as a separate tab to track the television schedules. I'll post that here at some point once we get closer to July, but good to see I'm not the only person who obsesses over these things. And yes, Tokyo's site is definitely somewhat lacking.

"Hey boss, I think I need to work from home the last week of July and the first week of August. Hope that's okay!"

When the torch relay started, there's no turning back. There won't be a cancellation. Too many sports leagues around the world are operating right now, so if there was any notion to cancel the Olympics, the question would be why can't they do it when others can?

I guess some people have a vastly different definition of "political crap" as I do because I'm as big a baseball fan as this board probably has and I have no idea what either of you are referring to.

Disappointing loss for the Americans. Never looked like they were the better team in this one. Congrats to Honduras. Will root for them now to break through and get that elusive first Olympic medal

You don't trade up and give up 2 future first rounds to take an offensive lineman. Clearly the Niners have someone specific in mind they really want and I don't i'ts Sewell. I'm a Jets fan and I'm still not sure what they plan on doing, but reportedly, they didn't even discuss trade possibilities with the 49ers. Which to me indicates they want to stay at #2 it probably means they'll take a QB. They took an OT in the 1st round last year. Don't think they'd do it again (but this is the Jets, so they'll probably find a way to screw it up)

The world lacrosse championships has 1 of the most insane competition formats I've ever seen that basically guarantees 4 or 5 countries at the top and then they have to have every team play classification games so they can decide who finishes in 37th place. It doesn't belong in the Olympics.

I know, I've seen some of his posts before. I'm not established enough here to respond to him like I really want and that might also get me in trouble

Difficulties in quarantining? So an entire country might not go to the Olympics because you think it'll be too hard for them to spend 14 days isolated in their home afterwards? I don't think so. Smaller countries will find a way to figure this out. It won't be that difficult. Especially if we're in a better place with regard to the pandemic by July than we are now

Like those start times for the American men. Nothing starts later than 1am ET