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Olympics, pandemic and politics: There's no separating them
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Aly Rustom
very unlikely.
This should give pause to any country or city thinking about hosting the games in the future. With rules like this, it would be clinically insane to want to become a host city.
Its going to be for worse. They should have cancelled it.
an elitist club ? more like a cult.
And that is the problem right there. There is no one to hold the LDP's feet to the fire. Therefore, people should vote them out if for the only reason for sending them a message that Japan is not their toy to do with what they please. Plus the public doubts the opposition's capability to govern? Its not like the LDP has shown theirs.
Exactly. Its a clown car.
If it turns out there is a surge in coronavirus patients and it becomes a catastrophe, that’s not the responsibility of the IOC. It’s the Japanese government that will be stuck with the responsibility.”
Yeah. Suga will bow, resign and get a nice severance and retirement package- and then watch Abe parachute back in.