Tokyo Olympic president tries to reassure doubting country

This Mori guy is a worthless bag of hot air

Not going to happen, he is clinging to a balloon is the rough seas of denial.

“We have to proceed as planned. There is no other way to respond.”

Mori needs to face up to reality.

As president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, Mori gets paid two million yen per month. Pretty good money for a retired old politician.

We have our own brains and we can use them well without you trying to convince us of your truth.

"Believing in that, to give joy and hope to many people, we will do our best until the end.”

Want to give joy and hope to many people? do your best and cancel the games you idiot

The other day, we hear from Suga (and Gates): "No vaccine, no Olympics".

Today, from Mori: "I will do my best to hold the Olympics"

This has nothing to do with the games. It's all about laying the groundwork for post-cancellation finger-pointing and face-saving. Those who have lived in Japan for a long time should be familiar with this refrain.

Mori is so called "ro gai." Problem caused by old people.

The best way to "bring joy and hope to many people" would be to cancel the Olympic games, prosecute the bribed officials involved in the fraudulent boondoggle(including Mori and his bloated salary), break up Dentsu and seize its assets for malfeaseance , and use the proceeds liberated by this to fund projects benefitting the majority of citizens.

“Spring will always come, morning will surely come even after long nights," President Yoshiro Mori said. "Believing in that, to give joy and hope to many people, we will do our best until the end.”

wasn't there an American politician who promised the American public that the Virus would be gone by spring? Oh wait...

Japan can't even control the virus now with its local population, how is it going to manage with tens of thousands more arriving from foreign countries and on top of that manage heat stroke issues as well? Idiots.

MORI: “Spring will always come, morning will surely come even after long nights,"

COVID19: "hold my beer"

After IOC Exec Dick Pound's speech that athletes (and the accompanying bloated train of officials and support that goes with them) should get priority over everyone else to enable the games to go ahead; disgust for the Olympic Circus and Lords of the Rings has increased.

Suga, the IOC, Mori and Bill Gates versus the majority of the Japanese people. That's what's happening right before our eyes. Will the people finally rebel against these sick IOC officials and their global elite friends and say enough is enough and the games are canceled. I certainly hope that the Japanese people will protest and ban the IOC officials from ever coming into Japan again. In the name of humanity!

@Zodiac

Suga, the IOC, Mori and Bill Gates versus the majority of the Japanese people.

You are misrepresenting Bill Gates involvement. He has nothing to do with the Olympics. He merely suggested that IF they were to take place, a rigorous vaccination plan must take place, including in in Third-World nations. Which is another way to say that IF such plan is not carried over, then there is no way they can take place.

As for the reported sentence he might have said "Gates called on Suga to host a successful Summer Games as it would send a strong message to the rest of the world", that's just a way to start a conversation. Gates has no power to decide if the Olympics are going to be held or not, so assuming they will, he was just being polite.

Mori you crook, your over-inflated salary would better serve the people of Japan than lining your pockets!

These are supposed to be leaders, with a vision, but they are Don Quichote’s fighting windmills, chasing lost causes for self importance and self interest. Repulsive

“If I get caught up in my thoughts, or if I flinch, or get a little lost in my mind — it affects everything,” Mori said. “We have to proceed as planned. There is no other way to respond.”

Mori sounds just like some deluded general from the Imperial Army High Command in August 1945

Halt the useless Olympic. Or let them have a ball.

to give joy and hope to many people, we will do our best until the end

ahhh, what a sweet sweet man.... （⌒▽⌒）

Whatever Mori is smoking, I’d like to purchase some, because he’s not living in reality.

Overpaid bureaucrat 'reassures' the country that he and his rich mates will go against their will and do everything they can to hold a huge international event during a pandemic.

He seems useless.

Amakudari at its finest.

I loathe at such people doing nothing outside hot air with taking a heavy paycheck while he has already abused taxpayers all his life.

Didn't like him as prime minister and I definitely don't like him as the JOC pusher.

How many things can this govt get wrong?

Even I am a big supporter of the Olympic Games, because I like that amazing sports event and it is a big chance for the athlets to show their skills and to step into the professional sport, but as long as the Corona Situation is not getting better all over the world, it makes no sense to keep on with the Olympics.

If an effective and safe vaccine is already implemented successful at that time all over the world, then I would say, yes let us do the Olympics.

But I really doubt that.

Good luck with that not going to happen. ha

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“Spring will always come, morning will surely come even after long nights," President Yoshiro Mori said. "Believing in that, to give joy and hope to many people, we will do our best until the end.”

In other words, "We know 80% of you don't want the Olympics, and there's no way they're going to happen, but if we keep pretending they will, I've got a good few months left with my snout deep in this delicious trough which you and your kids will be paying for long after I'm dead. "

Another of those deck orchestras playing their tunes until the icy waves embrace the instruments and the musicians...

Keep talking in the mirror, Mori... you know just as well as everyone else it's not happening.

I don't see how the Summer (or Winter) Olympics can be hosted by any country this year.

It would be very irresponsible for any country to attempt or even hint of hosting the Olympics right now. Japan should just admit that it's not going to happen and they should just cut their losses now and plan to host again in the future.

I really feel for the athletes but in the larger picture the Olympics is not a world priority.

Just skip the Olympics. Even in the best of circumstances it doesn’t live up to its lofty ideals. Nearly all of the competitive athletes are professionals to some extent or other. Like many other professional sporting events the competition is secondary to the business aspects of the Olympics. Either make it a truly amateur competition again or just forget about it.

I wanted the Olympics to happen and bring tourism back

Would it have actually boosted tourism, though?

Two polls in the last few days have shown just over 80% of Japanese people surveyed think the Olympics should be canceled or postponed, or believe they will not take place as COVID-19 cases surge in Japan.

Who are these other under 20% people? Relatives of Mori?

Those individuals are just as delusional as he is. They should all go have a BBQ in the Olympics stadium grounds during the opening ceremonies......

(you'll know them because they will be the only ones in the stadium........)

That's the power of money. Even if it means people end up dying (which is almost certain as most people in the world won't have been vaccinated by July), the games must go on? Bump them to 2024 and bump 2024 to 2028 etc.

The Guardian reported his comments as "postponement is out of the question".

That poll the other day had a "postpone" option, but even without it, I reckon a slight majority of public would still want the games cancelled.

If the olympics are cancelled, it would mean covid19 has not been put under control.

Yes, go celebrate that.

@Ian

Your above comment doesn't make sense.

I believe you

Seems to me that it will not be practical to hold the Olympics until the pandemic is under control. Given that Japan has not yet even started giving vaccinations, and that Japan is nowhere near herd immunity, to hold the Olympics seems like a terrible idea.

Tokyo Olympic is impossible. stop capitalism, save lives. Your personal trust is at stake here.

There is a very probable scenario that Japan is ignoring -.i.e in 5-6 months, a lot of the “lesser” world may not be allowed to go to Japan even if Japan lets them in.

I’m much more confident that 1) most of the 1st world Western will be vaccinated by June than I am 2) Japan will be able to show they have COVID under control by world standards.

Sorry Japan, without wide-spread testing, your data doesn’t count outside Japan.

Either make it a truly amateur competition again or just forget about it

Totally agree with your closing statement.

These games are going to safely happen

They won't happen. People in western countries are too dang selfish, stubborn and have to much freedom for things to go back to somewhat normal. In these conditions, athletes won't be able to go on with their regular trainings so a lot of them won't be on their best shape.

I wanted the Olympics to happen and bring tourism back (so I can go back to my career) but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Not going to happen, he is clinging to a balloon is the rough seas of denial.

I agree @Garthgoyle

With the resurgence of the virus in many countries, even if they do manage to control it here in Japan enough to go ahead with the games, it's hard to see it happening

Not going to happen, he is clinging to a balloon is the rough seas of denial.

It'll be a day of celebration when these Olympics are cancelled.

If the olympics are cancelled, it would mean covid19 has not been put under control.

Yes, go celebrate that.

Yes, it's much easier to just give up.

But not everyone has that loser mentality.