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© Thomson Reuters 2020.Summer heat could be a nightmare for Tokyo Games: 2020 adviser
By Jack Tarrant TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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gokai_wo_maneku
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were held in October. With the record heat, this seems like a good idea for the 2020 Olympics too. This time don't buckle to the pressure of US broadcasters who don't want the Olympics to interfere with their Autumn sports broadcasts like football or basketball. I can see the 2020 Olympics being known for high athlete fatalities.
garth
And this is how Tokyo's official bid for the Olympics described Tokyo's weather in July and August:
“With many days of mild and sunny weather, this period provides an ideal climate for athletes to perform at their best.”
Cricky
Did no one who organised this even "Think?", having coolbiz and AC set at 28 might help in a meeting but try doing sports outside. Not everyone has the Gambatte spirit to the point or beyond danger.
kurisupisu
High temperatures and humidity in the Tokyo summer pose a problem?
This is amazing to know!
that person
Why didn’t they kill 2 birds with 1 stone and postpone the games to October 2021?
Now we have to put up with another dozen articles about how it’s going to be too hot for the Olympics again
Deja vu
dbsaiya
Stop talking about this already. The idiots are going ahead with this fiasco no matter what, so unfortunately the hospitals and other first responders had better brush up on foreign languages and figure out how they're going to treat the potential mass casualty.
Speed
When they postponed these games to next year, they had a golden opportunity to move it to a cooler month, but they didn't. Can't feel much sympathy for these dummies.
tooheysnew
I can foresee a lot of this years news articles being recycled next year
sf2k
nothing to do with people or their health, just corporate cashola
Peter Neil
Wow, it's like deja vu, since almost everyone on planet Earth knew this about this a long time ago. Next, they'll be telling is about a new coronavirus that started in Wuhan . . .
Bugle Boy of Company B
Hahahahahahahaha
@Tokyo Olympic Committee
kyushubill
With Shinzokun gone why even bother? Wasn't this to be his crown jewel? And Article 9 being trashed his second? Seems there will be little interest now the "little" emperor is gone.
ohara
Summer heat could be a nightmare for Tokyo Games: 2020 adviser.
No! When did they come to this brilliant conclusion?
kyronstavic
Well, duh!
rainyday
Ah this harkens back to a more innocent pre-pandemic era when we spent so much time pointing out the lunacy of holding the games at the height of Tokyo's heat and humidity. If we only knew then that now, more than a month after the games were scheduled to end we'd STILL be having this idiotic debate.....
What a world.
Jessie Lee
Not sure why they always play it up like Tokyo is so hot. Many hotter places on the planet such as Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia etc. Its akin to the exagerating claims of being the only country with 4 seasons
nandakandamanda
Is this '2020 adviser', Professor Yokohari, actually paid to come up with such brilliant deductive reasoning? He'll be sticking his neck out. There is a silent tunnel vision majority on the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Comittee who still think that excess heat will be a positive advantage for Japanese athletes.
NOMINATION
News stories upon news stories up until 2020 that kept warning us about the hideous heat that will hit us during the 2020 games. Then after Olympics were supposed to happen, media came out saying actually the weather was mild so too bad the Olympics didn't happen. Are we going to be put through this again?
Asakaze
Heat in Tokyo in July - August?? What a complete surprise!! This fella must get a Nobel for his major discovery!
shogun36
Wow, recycled news stories? We didn't have enough conversation about this before? I'd say this were deja vu, but can't because now they are just being redundant.
Maybe, or just, you know stop calling it the "summer" olympics and just hold it in October or November, when temperatures are more tolerable. But I guess that would be too logical, and wouldn't make money for the TV networks.
1glenn
I have been reading for years about the summer heat in Tokyo without realizing what all the buzz was about, so I added Tokyo to the weather app on my phone. Now I could see how bad things are there. Goodness gracious, people, taking into account the humidity, the "feels like" temp in Tokyo is often over 40 degrees Celsius! That is terrible!
Ken Wyatt
Although it would be nice to see the IOC roast in their suits out in front of the stadium in the middle of August, it's the idiots who put Tokyo's candidacy forward who should be to blame, knowing full well what the weather's like there.
Yet another perfect example of what happens when politics get in the way of common sense.