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Tokyo Olympic organizers try to allay Sapporo test event concerns

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"We are fully aware (Sapporo) residents feel uneasy with the current situation, and we are carrying out various steps as we want to prepare for an event where people can feel even a little bit more at ease,

Resident can say whatever they want, that event will be carry on,

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""We are fully aware (Sapporo) residents feel uneasy with the current situation...." but who cares? (⌒▽⌒)

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Words that never seem to come from Japanese bureaucracy:

- “We are fully aware...”

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“We are fully aware residents feel uneasy with the situation, and we are carrying ...

... on anyway.*

*Perhaps this is what Yasuo Mori, Tokyo 2020's dep. exec. dir. of “The Games” was really thinking.

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This is really unbelievable event. More variant virus spread all over. Olympics must be cancelled. JOC is really incompetent about new variant.

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So the purpose of the event was to show it could be held properly with thousands of participants, and for that purpose they reduced it to less than 100? at some point people should realize when something is no longer what it was supposed to be.

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Mori also spoke about the "stringent measures" put in place for testing the six foreign athletes who have entered the country for the event, with daily screenings required and no public transportation allowed.

"stringent measures"?

Did they undergo a 14-day quarantine period after entering Japan to be sure that they do not have Covid-19? No, like the divers at the FINA event including at least one who has Covid-19, they did not.

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And yet the circus continues....

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Stringent measures. The Indian cricket despite keeping the participants in a highly controlled bubble has just been canceled because the virus still got in. Japanese stringent measures are not even remotely close to that bubble in either design or enforcement. Welcome to the super spreading Olympic events

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Tested diving, tested volley ball, and now testing running events?

What is with all the stupid testing?

I thought the athletes were suppose arrive a day or two before their events, be in bubbles, and sent back a day or two afterwards?

Why are all these athletes here early with their entourages?

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Once again the govt holds its people with utter contempt! I have witnessed this phenomenon now for over 30yrs NON-stop!

But this contempt for people during covid......... is evil!

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