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Patrick Kimura-Macke
What make of car? To the highest bidder?
Patricia Yarrow
What is the point of taking commemorative photos (top photo) with a piece of paper slapped across your faces?
WilliB
Just light another one next year. Good grief, what nonsense.
Bugle Boy of Company B
Apparently, it would seem to be that way.
gogogo
Turn around, cancelled!
smartacus
I'd like to see the flame kept lit in a cauldron in Tokyo for the next year as a symbol, and then start the relay again next March as had been originally scheduled, with hopefully all the chosen torchbearers still available to take part in the relay.
Britlover
代車 or ダサイ? Just in: Summer Olympics postponed for 1 year.
tamanegi
What about the fishermen in Fukushima!
Serrano
Make it next October.
Dukeleto
Only when it’s theirs apparently.
Tokyo-Engr
No longer matters. As of now 1 year delay is officially happening
Serrano
It's a near certainty that if one of the two spectators in the top photo have coronavirus, the other one has it too.
smithinjapan
Wow... how incredibly sad. And when they postpone the Games, are they going to do the whole relay again just because they need to appease old man Mori right now with this pathetic display, driven in a car? Why not just do it next year, and next year alone, when the Games will be postponed too? Seems pretty stupid to hold this event a year in advance when there are FAR more important things going on and they can't do it right anyway.
Tora
I am lost for words.
Blattamexiguus
Taking farce to a whole new level.
Monty Python would applaud.
If they weren't busy perfecting silly walks.
Fighto!
This is just dumb.
Why not just run all the Olympic events with the athletes inside cars in the stadium.
Mr Kipling
I hope they have a tread mill on a flat bed truck....
Comedy gold!
Jack
So much negativity.
nonu6976
Just imagine this being televised overseas - does the JOC/IOC not realize what a laughing stock this will look like?
Do the hustle
So, instead of people spreading themselves out along the route they will have all the people congregating at the destination instead. That makes perfect sense, NOT! All this nuttery for games that have already been postponed.
Chubaka
An unprecedented problem—Will the torch/flame be returned to Greece? Maintained until 2021 in Tokyo? Or doused as if it never happened? It would be nice if the flame could be kept in Tokyo as a promise by the IOC to Japan, especially after all the investment and efforts they have put into holding (or attempting to) this event.
888naff
Japan Olympic Legacy =
Less active travel and health.
More driving.
They can't see the irony.
Derek Grebe
And in other Futile Gesture news...
Face it. The Olympics aren't happening this year.
since1981
They forgot to mention on thing in the story. The actual reason is because an athlete (one that I know of) has declined to carry the torch. Read about it in an earlier article on JT.
Hunter James
The tradition and passion of the Olympic down the drain because these fools didn’t want to postpone it and now it’s a whole farce! The torch shouldn’t have been lit until the uncertainty of this pandemic was dealt with. The IOC and Japan Olympic Committee are a bunch of idiots!
Bugle Boy of Company B
Sure there are!
Pathetic. Embarrassing. Stubborn. Lame.
...and here I thought Japan was all about traditions!
Luddite
There are no words.