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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Tokyo Olympic organizers plan to host 18 test events
By STEPHEN WADE TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Sven Asai
18 additional test events with their enormous corresponding costs? You obviously must already swim in trillions after having solved all other problems. Impressive. But it also fits with that supercomputer for some little aerosol calculations, useless space exploration phantasies or throwing money into such excellently profitable areas like the Afghan war zone...lol
Goodlucktoyou
Japan’s infection is way too low. Because we are an island we can’t successfully increase our infection rate. To compete with other countries like America, Brazil, India EU etc. we need to import the virus as much as possible and spread it. Otherwise our infection rate will be the lowest and we are just a bunch of losers.
blahblah222
The tests are designed not to fail.
Basically, it will be: pack 40k people for event make sure no one gets tested claim 0 infections success!
Same thing with the baseball games. The government scientists cannot really say what the government does not allow them to say, so it is really just a waste of taxpayer money at this point, but still pales in comparison of what Dentsu etc. will be getting for the Olympics.
kaimycahl
So if the test are failures, does that mean canceling the games?
drlucifer
Meant doesn't mean.
drlucifer
Stop with the useless comparison and nationalism. If every country out there used as yardstick of how well Japan has handled this pandemic, was testing at the same rate like Japan, they too will be viewed as having handled the pandemic well.
borscht
If an athlete from another country were to come to Japan to 'test' Japan's ability to handle COVID-19 and ends up getting the virus and getting it bad, that will essentially knock the athlete out of the Olympics. Especially if the athlete is in a 'test' held in May.
If a Japanese athlete were to get the virus during a 'test' event held in March, will they cancel the rest of the 'tests' or blame the athlete for not being Japanese enough to keep his or her infection secret?
Cricky
My planning forward does not invole billions of tax payer yen. Bribes, public health concern, cronyism...and flat out self serving lies.
Luddite
Bach is either in denial or is ignorant as to how Japan is dealing with the pandemic.
kohakuebisu
If foreign spectators are not welcome in six months' time, does that mean foreign tourists aren't going to be either? Until recently, there were thirty odd million of them and far more businesses depend on their spending than depend on the Olympics. If the government has no intention of allowing foreign tourists before the Olympics, those businesses deserve to be told. The way things stand, it looks like we are getting a backdoor opening of the border for the Olympics and cheap Asian labor, but to hell with everyone else.
jiji Xx
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mu-da
If denial would be an Olympic sport the Japanese would win all medals.
dbsaiya
I hope the plan includes crisis management and response; probably not. So that means, welcome to the mink farm kiddies...
Cricky
Good to see "Maximum alert" involves 18 pre Olympic events? What are they thinking? Athletes preparation is in mess, they just won't let the personal cash cow go.
dagon
So an official statement by the Tokyo government says it is speding $12.6 billion but an official government audit says it is twice that. Sounds as transparent and above board as everything else associated with these games.
simon g
2021 Olympics is such a bad idea.
Good luck.
sf2k
it's not worth a life