Posted on 03/23/2020 11:20:46 AM PDT by C19fan
The International Olympic Committee decided on Monday to postpone the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, despite wanting to wait to make a decision.
Initially the IOC had been firm on wanting to wait until late April before deciding whether the games should be cancelled, postponed or moved. The speed with which the pandemic has escalated forced the committee to act more quickly, however.
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And the Japanese Olympic Committee was the last to find out about it.
Just as well- Godzilla would just crush the arenas anyways- too risky to hold it in Japan- Godzilla aint to be messed with! too unpredictable-
Just delay it until 2021.
This was inevitable as soon as countries started announcing that they wouldn’t be sending any competitors.
You said it.
The Olympics are a joke and just a political exercise now. I hope they don’t come back.
After Canada pulled out, it was only a matter of time.
They are delaying it to 2021.
I was having a good laugh over the commercials NBC was running about the upcoming Olympics.
true the Olympics has become a shadow of its former self but the US has a lot of young track and field stars that I was hoping to watch.....sad for them...hope its only postponed not cancelled...
I wasn’t going to watch it anyway, but it makes sense to keep people from congregating in a large international crowd.
I was most interested in the swimming.
American Katie Ledecky is kick@ss. No one can hang with her.
no guarantee that 2021 will work... another virus could roll out next winter... plus the stigma of the chinese virus may still scare off athletes next summer.
I think 2022 is the better choice... the winter olympics are in Beijing and you know those games are gonna happen.
“No guarantee that 2021 will work... another virus could roll out next winter... plus the stigma of the chinese virus may still scare off athletes next summer.
I think 2022 is the better choice... the winter olympics are in Beijing and you know those games are gonna happen.”
AGREE - even if we have a vaccine before then, we won’t have enough doses to be ready for ‘business as usual’, and that’s the BEST CASE scenario!
Too bad for the Jamaican bobsled team. They could have won a gold if nobody else showed up.
Trump caught flack for suggesting this around 10 days ago
and the enemedia says he was downplaying the danger of this virus...
-PJ
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