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dagon
"While there were various views about holding the Games this summer, we, as the host country of the Games, fulfilled our responsibilities and achieved what we set out to do," Suga said. He commended the athletes for giving "hopes and dreams to everyone across the globe."
Why is it when elected leaders fail to deliver any actual benefits to their citizenry (except for a select few) the default is always to say they gave "hopes and dreams"? Vary your platitudes! Don't be hackish!
sf2k
more like slavery to the multinational corportations by Japan and all participants
Jacko
However little credibility in which he had left in him, it's all lost in this speech now.
Kev James
I don’t know that many people around me who got hopes and dreams from these Olympic Games. I know myself and my young daughter got saddled with years and years of debt though. Suga and his people won’t care though as they won’t have to face the hardships to pay it back.
Oxycodin
No one got sick and died from covid during the Olympics as the virus is deadlier than the common cold.
Aly Rustom
Suga tells U.N. Olympics were symbol of global unity
Just stop already Suga! You got to host the games. Just leave it! And no one wants to hear about those games anymore. They're done. Move on!
TrevorPeace
No. A symbol of corporate rule over national government. Pretty freaking simple, isn't it? Money rules.
tooheysnew
statements like these crack me up.
You personally, are not in any debt due to the Olympics.
And governments having been wasting our tax money since the Roman days.
dbsaiya
"Global unity.." Yes, I believe the theme was something like, "united by emotion?" The crushing debt, and feeling of abandonment and hopelessness by all those impacted by the virus and the socioeconomic fallout is the emotion that comes to mind. As for global unity, I doubt any country will help the Japanese now saddled with debt and taxes for generations to come.
Yubaru
Global unity my butt!
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Suga if he could open his eyes a little more perhaps he could see that holding the Olympics during a pandemic didn't Unite the world
GW
Sickening! All the games did was put greed & $$$ front & centre meanwhile the people in Japan got sick in RECORD #s & lord only knows how many DIED because of these games!!!
Disgusting, the people of Japan will continue to personally pay very a very high price for this olympic folly!
Sam Watters
He didn’t even have national unity on this one!
rainyday
The rest of the world was united in a shared sense of relief that it was Japan, and not them, hosting the idiotic event.
jeancolmar
The Tokyo Olympics were not a symbol of global unity but the stark reality of local misery.
zurcronium
Yes, Japan was unified with other countries that also had a huge spike in COVID infections and related deaths. Other than that there was nothing to speak of really. Oh, it did result in another person being fired from his job, Suga, to join the millions of others worldwide.
William77
The hall was semi empty if you look at the photo,and the words of Suga were to little interest to the U.N.
This old man has a political influence abroad like zero.
Moskollo
Nobody could go, and no one wanted it held-a show of global unity or how much a leader can be out of touch with his people?
Hito Bito
lol. Lame Duck Suga, reduced as a "leader" to simply standing still long enough to become replaced, must be Trolling us all now. These PandemOlympics? A "Symbol of global unity"? lol.
You're a wicked Troll, Suga! The Elites will of course be charmed, but the People are Triggered. Well played.
Trolling...I can find no other explanation!
Tokyo-gaijin
Personally I don’t see the world as a ‘united world’ nor has Suga and the Olympics brought it any closer to being unified. What a blithering idiot Suga is.
Pukey2
Yeah, that's why he's resigning. Just about as useful as a wet blanket.