Posted on 07/23/2021 10:49:34 AM PDT by dynachrome
A typhoon could wreak havoc on the Tokyo Olympics next week — only the latest worry facing the troubled competition.
The potential storm may head dangerously close to Japan’s capital city Monday, just days into the Summer Games, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Forecasters warned that there’s a “medium chance” for “potential tropical development.”
The storm is currently forming in the Philippine Sea and expected to travel west over the weekend, forecasters said.
The storm warning is just the latest hurdle for Olympic organizers, who have been trying to keep athletes safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Still, surfers who arrived in Tokyo for the Games couldn’t be happier about the potential weather surge.
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"Covid and global warming cause olympic typhoon"
I hope NBC and the IOC both lose a fortune.
Who will notice?
Lived outside of Tokyo for 3 years. Summer is typhoon and monsoon season. If it’s not sunny and 95* with 95% humidity, it’s storming. Peak summer sucked.
Is Godzilla boycotting the Olympics? Or is he still thinking of showing up too?
Japanese won’t mind, most of them hate that the Games are going on, and that they let some Gaijin who doesn’t even speak Japanese light the Olympic Flame.
Please start having “positive” COVID test results. No symptoms. Just enough to shut down the games. I feel sorry for the legit athletes who worked hard to get to this stage, but the stage is now too political and “one-worldly”.
Good. They allowed the disrespect of the flag Not watching
There were a lot of protestors outside the stadium, I hope there are massive protests that force them to shut down.
Worst Olympics ever and it’s not even close.
I saw some of the Opening Ceremonies, a disgusting woke-fest.
I missed that. I wonder how much of Japan would rather eat the cost of the Olympics and get everyone out of their country ASAP.
Why does any sane city want to host these things? They cost millions, leave the city with a deserted sports hulk that’ll not ever be used again, and now that the olympic rules allow mentally challenged whatevers to choose their sex, what’s the point of a gold medal? Add the visual smell of watching some two digit IQ make their medal a political point and we’ve got total sewage. And I always totally avoid any product with a jock as the advert - since that means the product alone was not capable of selling itself.
Go Go Godzilla!
I don’t know anyone who is watching a moment of the event.
The Olympics needs a shark jumping competition. :)
He is there already disguised as Megan Rapinoe, just look for the pink hair.
Not watching here either.
Boycott this anti-American event!
“Wrath of God kinda stuff”!
Cancel it; end the misery and staunch the already never to be recovered expenses.
If I were the world’s benevolent dictator I would have two permanent Olympic games sites - one for the winter games and one for the summer, and both in small countries, or islands, just big enough for jet travel and hosting the games.
They would be built by initial and later annual fees that all the countries submitting teams would pay into, plus what TV revenue the Olympic committee could get. I’d end the global politics of choosing, and bragging rights for, new sites for hosting the games, and I’d end the massive spending nations do each time to temporarily host the games. The long term expenses would be less when the facilities for the games do not require massive investment/re-investment, as most of the facilities would be permanent and sufficient.
I think a site for the summer games would be easier for achieving that idea than for the winter games, as an island somewhere might be sufficient for the summer games.
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