Tokyo Olympics looking more and more like fan-free event

From Japanese’s points of view, I disagree with IOC and Japanese government. This article stated that Vaccinated people are estimated at about 5% of the population. We must stop the Tokyo Olympic! We must chose our life! I heard that Yuriko Koike has authority “stop the Tokyo Olympic”, even though IOC has a strong determination to hold the games. She is only the governor of Tokyo, so only she can make decisions hold or stop the game finally. I hope that she decides to stop the Tokyo Olympic for everyone life.

I can only imagine what the history books will say about this.

”The 2020/2021 Olympic Games were held in Tokyo, Japan, with no fans, amidst public opposition, against expert medical advice, during a state of emergency, at the behest of the IOC, and with the Japanese government displaying a quite astonishing level of timid acquiescence. Other than that, they were a great time for all involved”

The new Vietnam variant, a highly infectious combination of the Indian and UK variants, make it even more difficult to hold the games. Even if athletes from Vietnam are banned, it could separately develop randomly when so many athletes and officials with their variants from different countries come here. Can you stubborn intentional killers still stand it? How dare you to hate your own people so much that you even would accept many more deads? Unbelievable. My recommendation would be that you don’t try and immediately cancel the games before all the families of the dying corona victims get angry.

Where is the spirit of the Olympic Games in all this mess ?

Why do I care if the Olympics happens or not? Setting aside the fact that the majority of the Japanese people do not want it, if the T/O happens there will be a surge of tourists during and after the Olympics trying to get out of Japan. It will be a prolonged Golden Week flood down to my tiny island, triggering another targeted SOE. Hokkaido faces the same prospect as well as the other tourist destinations.

So slowly the organizers take out more and more of the supposed benefits of the games, but still insist on holding them even if the costs (in money and specially elevation of risks) remain the same.

Slowly is the key word in your post. It has to be slow to look like steps are being taken. After the SOE is rescinded on the 20th ( which is also the IOC's date for a go or no go decision) you will see a plethora of things added back in. The three larges travel agencies in japan are already selling Olympic packages. They say if the Olympics are cancelled they will refund the money... maybe they already know the fix is in....

@virusrex

So slowly the organizers take out more and more of the supposed benefits of the games, but still insist on holding them even if the costs (in money and specially elevation of risks) remain the same.

Could not agree more: The public health risk is obvious and the risk reward ratio is very literally infinite (the games pose absolutely no benefit to public health but a huge risk).

The economic risk reward ratio which was already extremely high, is now going higher (except for the IOC and NBC of course).

But remember: the IOC told Japanese if they are worried do not travel to Tokyo but did not tell those living in Tokyo where to go...

So slowly the organizers take out more and more of the supposed benefits of the games, but still insist on holding them even if the costs (in money and specially elevation of risks) remain the same.

gaijintravellerToday 08:02 am JST

Fan-free? Really? A volunteer I know was told in a training presentation that there would be VIP fans.

VIP fans, sports federation staff, sponsors, sponsors families, IOC staff, LOC staff, Olympic Committee staff from each country, media and so on. There's also the possibility of 810, 000 Tokyo schoolchildren being bussed in to fill the empty seats:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/bf543bbf3f63aee23c084032bbc546e3a4883f26

stil to continue with these games in 2021 is spitting in the face of every Japanese asked to sacrifice his business

Fan-free? Really? A volunteer I know was told in a training presentation that there would be VIP fans.

Tokyo Olympics looking more and more like fan-free event

Yeah, because nobody in Japan is a fan of the Olympics.

“Hashimoto defended the IOC's leadership...

... of Her country.

There were have it-

“The IOC has a strong determination to hold the games," Hashimoto said.