Tokyo Olympic village may have COVID-19-focused health center

I'm guessing a lot of international athletes are going to vote with their feet and decide not to come, like the Canadians did earlier. Since Japan is incapable of showing leadership, the outside world with and force Japan not to hold the Olympics. That's I think is going to happen personally

Yay meetings! And more meetings. But no decisions. Ugh

WTF Japan, sounds to me like you are PLANNING to have the games even with those involved coming down with Covid........that is just plain STUPID, beyond belief I might add!!

Like I have said before & was said above, people & NOCs outside Japan are going to start pulling out forcing Japan & the IOC once again to pull the plug AFTER it has already been pulled!!!! Idiots all round!

A COVID19 clinic will basically be a hotel with lots and lots of rooms (with wifi) for isolating the athletes, coaches, judges, and hangers-on who come down with COVID 19 during the games. Including a few dozen ICU rooms equipped with all the tools needed to save lives. Paid for by... IOC? the fine taxpayers of Tokyo? the fine taxpayers of Japan? Money printed by the Bank of Japan? Dentsu? Hahahahaha, Dentsu.... Sorry.

Putting the car before the horse. Their should be No Olympic village. It is anyway an outdated concept which only serves as one of the big money makers for the LOC and construction partners, letting first make LOC pay for the building, later making more money selling it off to individual owners.

The excuse that it is a place for athletes to mingle, is just that. Athletes can ( could, before the pandemic) meet any where these days and do all year round. It is during the pandemic completely irresponsible to use an Olympic village.

Mr Vinke, you have a good point there but i am in favour of several hotel bubbles close to the training and competition venues for each sport. Only about 70 % of athletes use the olympic village anyway as some competitions are very far from Tokyo and top athletes find no rest in the village. Besides that golfers, tennissers etc.. expect more than a cardboard bed.

the cknstant in and lut of athletes makes tracing nearly impossible at the Village. Athletes do not stay there all at the same time. They come and leave depending on the competition schedule. Like, all swimming in the first week, track and field in the second and so on

@robert maes

The excuse that it is a place for athletes to mingle, is just that. Athletes can ( could, before the pandemic) meet any where these days and do all year round. It is during the pandemic completely irresponsible to use an Olympic village.

Actually, wouldn't it be more irresponsible for not to have an Olympic village, in these times, if the Olympics are arranged nevertheless? I'd much rather have the athletes, their coaches, their medics, and all others involved with the games in one known place, rather than scattered all around the city, posing a risk to the ones that have nothing to with the event.

In addition though, I'd hope the clinic would be a separate and secluded entity, away from the village itself.

Wow... so they're going to do the bare minimum of things they should? Oh, wait... they're forming panels to discuss it.