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IOC chief Bach's visit to Japan being arranged for June: report

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When he visits I hope he takes a regular rush hour commuter train to his meeting place.

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Hands on yer wallets lads, Bottakuri Danshaku is after our money again.

According to Shukan Bunshun, the 47 prefectures that hosted the torch relay spent a total of 11.6 billion yen! That's around $106m. What a rip-off.

https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/44781

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When he visits I hope he takes a regular rush hour commuter train to his meeting place.

Ha! Not those "Royals". They are going to be tucked away safe in their limos paid for by us lowly peasants.

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Yes yes, come to the land of the no vaccine in sight. Please enjoy the fear.

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June? I see. Welcome. You can see what damage you have done to Japan along with Suga san and Koike san.

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Two weeks quarantine in a designated hotel, please !

Then telework, online meetings per the government recommendations.

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According to Shukan Bunshun, the 47 prefectures that hosted the torch relay spent a total of 11.6 billion yen! That's around $106m. What a rip-off.

Yep, when you play with fire, you can really get burned!

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I hope there's a giant anti-Olympic protest group waiting for him at the airport when he comes.

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Hey Bach, don’t come. We don’t want you or your Olympic Games. What we need is the vaccine program to be massively ramped up from its disgustingly tiny levels.

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It would be nice if Bach would take part in a EVENT to PREVENT the torch relay event and the spread of the virus

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Bach's Tokyo trip cancelled due to surging COVID infections.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31420322/ioc-president-thomas-bach-cancels-japan-trip-virus-cases

IOC president Thomas Bach cancels Japan trip because of coronavirus cases

TOKYO -- IOC president Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement.

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How about June...2022 instead?

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Stay home, Bach! You are NOT helping us here with your visit.

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@Boku Dayo

How about June...2022 instead?

Not possible because of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and 2022 Qatar World Cup.

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It’s all going as planned. well done for managing so well under adversity and negativity from the Covid conspiracy theorists

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The 2021 Summer Olympics has set games lover and the media buzzing with excitement. Sports lovers over the world has waiting for Olympics for every fourth year. With the Nice Presentation by the over hundred of participants at the 2016 Rio Olympics four years back, fans couldn’t wait to watch what is happening the Tokyo Olympics 2021 have to. Today we are going to get some info about official and unofficial channels of 2021 Tokyo Olympics live stream online and offline. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the venues & date of the 2021 Summer Olympics some time back, and the excitement raise with the dates of the event approaching close.

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