Posted on 02/27/2020 6:36:36 AM PST by C19fan
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are a $25 billion operation. They’re the subject of dreams, of entire lives of training, of a decade of intensive planning. It makes sense, then, that organizers would go to considerable lengths to quell fears that a mysterious coronavirus could impact the Games. “Preparations,” the IOC has said in a blanket statement, “continue as planned.” And Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto: “Our basic thoughts are that we will go ahead with the Olympic and Paralympic Games as scheduled.”
Yet as COVID-19’s global case toll reached 80,000 this week, and as the disease spread throughout Asia and to Europe, concern simmered. And on Tuesday, the IOC’s most senior member gave it a prominent voice. Dick Pound used the word “cancellation,” the news media sounded alarms, and for the first time, the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak could shutter the Olympics became real.
On Wednesday, Pound picked up his phone again.
He’d seen some of the reaction to his comments. “And I think either I missed the point or some of the reporters missed the point,” he told Yahoo Sports. “My point was, we are a go for July 24, [as of] today. It’s a very fluid situation. And nobody knows enough about the virus. And that might change. But for now, July 24 is the Opening Ceremony.”
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They’ll do the opening ceremony and competition events in face masks, before the IOC shuts it down.
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Since they are hosting the summer Olympics, I think they will take place as scheduled.
I don’t even know why anyone even wants to host the Olympics. It’s become a money pit and logistical nightmare.
As an entrepreneur (US Importer/Distributor of very high end audio), my French partner has cancelled exhibiting at the annual Munich High End Show - THE largest high end audio show in the world - due to the CoronaVirus.
That said...
It still appears to a weapon to attack Trump and destabilize the US economy.
Life can’t go on without rhythmic gymnastic and synchronized swimming competitions.
Hopefully he epidemic will have passed by then & the athletes will be healthy
“Since they are hosting the summer Olympics, I think they will take place as scheduled.”
Are you assuming this will have passed as some overblown hysteria by then or that warm weather will kill off the virus or is it something else?
don't forget Discus.
Just keep hosing down all athletes and their housing with disinfectants and get them 3M-P95 masks
When NASCAR is an Olympic event then I’ll start watching again.
Summer Olympics 2020 begins Friday, July 24..... Corona virus should run its course by then.
“ It still appears to a weapon to attack Trump and destabilize the US economy.”
Correct-a-mundo
They could all wear body condoms. Throw the used ones on the village roofs.
I like the winter ones where you ski and shoot at targets.
Summer games should have an event where you drive a hooptie with 22 inch rims between stations where you jump out and shoot up a convenience storefront.
Hmmm, do we have a training program for that already in place.
“....shoot up a convenience storefront.
They can have that event in Chicago. It’s proven they already have the event by local citizens (sometimes) and the apparatus are already in place.
rwood
I think the US would be a lock for the gold medal.
I do not think there is any safe place to host the Olympics this year. If you are a clean country you will have people coming in with the virus, so they would not want to host it too. They just need to cancel it.
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