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Can’t see many more goals from the Dutch. They easing off.

I know their saying funding in the Uk not going to be affected by performance but If GB do badly it will have an effect. Every other country will be dealing with the same Covid issues (there is only going to be a few medals at best ruled out due to Covid caught in the Uk).

Sad news. Through she was quite late to be going to Japan with the Skeet being on Monday. Suprised they was no pre camp for Shooters - plenty of athletes not competing till later are already in Japan if not yet in the village. With how high the cases are in the UK they will be quite a few more from the UK testing positive either before departure or shortly after arrival in Japan I sadly suspect. She was tested several times and all were positive so no false test issues.

79 Olympic related cases. Not sure all of them are in the village. Some of will be people testing positive at pre games camps and also some Olympic related staff who are not in the village.

And with a awful hissing noise.

This Olympics is make or break for the future of Athletics. If the Super Spikes become unpopular then it will be a lot harder to prevent the post Bolt popularity drop from spiralling out of co)549.

The track is expected to be rebuilt by October 2022.

Will they want to bid? 2034 feels more realistic for them if Germany don’t got for Summer 2036.

The biggest effect of all this is finding a host for the 2030 Winter Olympics. No way will Sapporo be able to get the people onside. Salt Lake City and Vancouver seem to be only two realistic options and both are flawed.

It’s because the Olympics have become so unpopular in Japan that it has become a consequence of being an electoral issue. Through it’s also because individual cities have the power to to be into an emergency and Tokyo city is a different entity to the wider metropolitan area.

I think as detailed schedules are revealed it will be more in depth. Like the Badminton matches featuring GG competitors are specially named and included. So it will include the same for things like Tennis and Table Tennis. I wonder if it will specifically name individual GB competitors in things like Rowing and Swimming when the start lists are published.

The Press have access so some countries might report the figures. The BBC have a round up for the Uk and some international stars. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57888185 And here are some other roundups. https://www.foxsports.com.au/tokyo-olympics-2021/olympic-games-tokyo-2021-live-latest-updates-covid-when-does-it-start-schedule-times-australia-aest-simone-biles-zach-lavine/news-story/7b0e4e3242a4b5650da3cf63251c4411?recommendedCount=0 https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics-japan-projected-improve-medals- 082636257.html https://www.eurosport.com/olympics/tokyo-2020/2020/tokyo-2020-team-gb-predicted-to-win-14-gold-medals-including-max-whitlock-adam-peaty-jade-jones_sto8426397/story.shtml https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/125806764/tokyo-olympics-eight-golds-predicted-for-new-zealand-matching-their-record-haul-37-years-on

Just subscribed to Discovery +. Rather weirdly the archery ranking rounds are included in the list of available events - but only in 15 minute slots at 06.00 and 10.00 BST. Looks like Gymnastics is going to be fully filmed as separate feeds for Horizontal Bars, Floor, Parallel Bars, Vault, Rings, and Pommel Horse along with a general feed are available. This is repeated from Women’s qualification with Vault, Floor, Beam and Uneven Bars. That was always an issue with previous games which saw some qualification routines shown from terrible angles. This carries on into the team finals and looks like it might for the All arounds as loads of feeds are available but they not named. Sepreate feeds are also available for field events in athletics.

Did they not fly in together - I believe a charted plane from Prague was used rather than a commercial flight.

How can they not be related when they all linked to Beach volleyball?

Surely it’s weather conditions. Speed skating can’t really be held safely if it’s snowing or raining as they competing. So an outdoor venue is Leon to the weather playing havoc with the schedule. An outdoor swimming pool in LA is less risky as Swimming can happen in light rain and LA is rather dry in the Summer.

Not so sure about Swiatek - she’s has not mpressed outside of clay tournaments.

Surely the funniest is British winning the 4 x 200 women’s relay. When Britain has pulled out of the event.

Japan’s government is pretty business friendly. Are Toyota really supporters of the opposition. I would be surprised at that.

True. Nobody says that about the 1980 and 1984 games.

The opposition parties in Japan would nothing more than to portray the Japanese government as more interested in the IOC than health risks of the public .

I suspect quite a lot of international dignitaries will pull out. I can see Jill Biden suddenly cancelling her trip for example.

I don’t think the Japanese people would take to a vaccinated/non vaccinated difference in treatment. So it’s non starter for the IOC.

Not close enough to judged to be a close contact. Covid spread within sport teams are a bit unpredictable. Sometimes an entire team catches it other times hardly anyone else seems to catch it when a member tests positive. Let’s hope her vaccine works as well ( She is believed to have been vaccinated).

Biles is 24 so it’s not her. It might not even be the artistic team - it could be one of the Rhythmic team.