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© Thomson Reuters 2021.JOC executive says Tokyo Games should be held without spectators
By Antoni Slodkowski and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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OlympicSupport
Fill the stadiums!!! We need herd immunity NOW!
BertieWooster
Here's an idea!
Hold the games without competitors!
Yubaru
Folks have been saying this for months! Kind of hard to blame people for wanting to travel and move about, when the government is dead set on holding these Olympics.
Cricky
The government has failed to gain the public’s understanding again. And as usual push a very narrow and negative outcome policy for the public and a very beneficial policy for heir own small circle. I understand that.
snowymountainhell
Good for her to speak out!
Either her careers are now ‘done’, in Japan,
or …
She has a real chance ‘amongst women in Japan politics’?
“Asiaman7
Clever move. She knows the Olympics will most likely move forward with spectators — and she wants everyone to have fun! — but she protects herself against blowback in case something goes wrong.
virusrex
And have more unnecessary preventable deaths? that is no solution. Immunizations with safe and effective vaccines reach the same goal without exposing people to the disease and its complications. That is why health care experts push for vaccination and not for large events congregating people.
Darius
JOC? more like JOKE.
GW
A very VERY CRUEL JOKE!
Goodlucktoyou
Saw on Singapore TV this morning that up to one billion people play virtual sports. Why hold Olympics in a worldwide pandemic? In a heatwave. Hospitals overloaded. New SARS-CoV-2 strain now coming out of Africa???
Thomas Tank
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
falseflagsteve
If people start moving around! They have been all the time anyway and Covid is well under control now. There’s always one or two that want to put a spanner in the works.
dk9000
Meanwhile literally more than 10 million people ride the trains to Tokyo to and from work every single day, but somehow 70k mostly vaccinated olympic folks following super strict protocols won't be able to come safely to Japan while there's a couple hundred masked and socially distanced spectators in the stadium to provide at least a hint of enjoyment? What's the logic here?
ian
They say the safety protocols will not work, whatever those are. That's it
ZENJI
CASH v CARE
CASH wins every time.
therougou
Obviously not everyone. It has already been established that the number moving around will be less than an average day's commute. As usual, someone is fear-mongering only about the Olympics while turning a blind-eye to everything else.
therougou
There is no logic. Just politically-motivated fear-mongering.
serendipitous1
Agree, no spectators makes sense. Much rather watch on TV with the airconditioner on anyway. A week or so ago, it was just 2% or 4% of Japanese who had received at least one shot and now it's 12%. Things are moving in the right direction as the number of infections doesn't seem to be increasing.
Boku Dayo
No. The games should be CANCELLED.