Harry_Gatto comments

I have yet to meet someone who believes that she is innocent.

jeancolmarToday  07:21 pm JST

The latest from NHK. The infection rate has reached 10,000. That's Ten thousand.

If by "infection rate" you mean the nationwide total then it is 10,699 according to the headline of this article. That's ten thousand, six hundred and ninety-nine.

Apart from a couple of white shirts these "spectators" are all in matching red or blue uniforms.

Anyway, I still can't believe that golf is an Olympic sport, ludicrous.

HakmanToday  03:02 pm JST

The United Kingdom never should have handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997.

Easier said than done, the treaty had to honoured. Retaining HK by force is unsustainable, China controls the food and water. Nice idea but an impossible dream.

HK is screwed, if you have business there then dump it, get out asap and leave them to it. It will never ever be like it used to be. A great pity, I've been a regular visitor since the 70s but like most good things, ......................

blvtzpkToday  11:08 pm JST

Just keep the Marathon. That’ll cut down construction costs. Finish in a pub car park.

Ideally just after opening time so as to be able to stay and relax for a while. Perfect; a decent pint and a Ploughman's.

Not sure just what is in her mind right now but if she doesn't believe that she can do it then she shouldn't compete. She said -

"I didn't want to go out and do something stupid and get hurt... At the end of the day we don't want to be carried out of there on a stretcher."

She's proved her worth many times over but she's right, not be in the right mindset, get it wrong and she could be seriously hurt. As we have seen in tennis, if you're not feeling up to it mentally you'll lose but you don't run the risk of crippling yourself for life.

Americans winning medals for shooting; there's something to ponder on.

July-August is harsh for foreigners never lived in Japan.

There are foreigners who actually do come from / live in countries hotter than Japan; did you know that?

Tanekuma77Today  09:58 pm JST

@BORSCHT

Either way, recording with their phones as they walk in is in poor taste in my opinion. It’s a ceremony in an event. They are participating, not watching.

Quite so. Good taste, good manners and just knowing how to conduct oneself is now a lost art.

But Bong Youngshik, a research fellow at Yonsei University Institute for North Korean Studies, says the flag wouldn’t have become a major issue if Japan had accepted its neighbors’ demands for making a more “sincere apology” over its wartime abuse.

How many more times do we have to hear this BS from a Korean nobody, you've had your apologies, you've had your compensation payments, now just please go away.

without a rival bid

Words to salivate over.

This issue has been around for years and keeps coming back ad nauseum, a little like those unfortunate Brits who live in the English town of Scunthorpe and often have a problem telling people where they live.

KumagaijinToday  10:29 am JST

Why do they start softball and soccer before the opening ceremonies?

Its quite common in many sports/events to start matches/competition before the official ceremonies.

That doesn't answer the question though.

It's a pity that the Chinese didn't give their virus a little more room to play in then perhaps it wouldn't have felt the need to escape.

I meant to add this to the post above but thinking about this; a national team from wherever can easily arrive together on one flight but their individual events are spread over a 2 or 3 week period. If they are from the US or another major country then there are probably plenty of flights to choose from to get them back home but, if they are from somewhere less erm, blessed with regular flights, they are going to have a problem.

..........and athletes required to leave the Olympic Village 48 hours after they finish competing.

To their home country one assumes?

This whole Olympics SNAFU just gets worse:

This article is headlined -

Suga says world needs to see Japan can stage safe Olympics

and the next article is headlined -

Tokyo reports 1,387 new coronavirus cases

If I wasn't sitting here right in the middle of this rolling fiasco I would have trouble believing it.

Read the first article:

https://mainichi.jp/english/

Elsewhere in a PA report:

"On Saturday, the 46-year-old reportedly said in a since-deleted Instagram live video that she was deliberately disobeying quarantine rules by taunting guards and opening her hotel room door without a mask."

If so then she has been deliberately breaking the rules, not planning to or threatening to, and deserves all she gets.

When is Bach due to leave Japan? To where I wonder.

Perhaps the second last paragraph should read:

Most South Koreans are taught to harbor animosity over Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula,......................

Now that Trump's name has been dragged into the "discussion" I wonder how long it will be before this thread gets closed down?

Given that she is half Haitian did she ever comment or offer any support to the people there who are suffering so badly?

Suga san: Bach is a guest here, making the games safe is YOUR responsibility, not his. He will be leaving soon, the rest of the population has to stay and take its chances. Do your job! If you can't then get someone in who can.

Express sisterToday  03:09 pm JST

Elon Musk is an idiot.

Yes, he must be to be worth an estimated $163 billion.

 J-pop singer Aimyon used it for the cover of her single “Haru no Hi.”

Aimyon could make any station look a thousand times better on a Spring Day.

Searing heat, dripping humidity, and face masks:

"face masks"? Not a mask in sight in any of these file photos; lazy journalism which doesn't help with the credibility of the article.

Flat 203 at 56B, Whitehaven Mansions is the home and office address of Hercule Poirot in the mid-1930s.

Whereas elsewhere in this esteemed publication it is reported that:

"South Korea will raise coronavirus curbs to their highest level in the Seoul metropolitan area, the country's prime minister said Friday, warning a record spike in new cases had reached "maximum crisis level".

Around 90 people in that photo all coming here from just one corona virus ravaged country.

oldman_13July 8  03:19 am JST

This has America's dirty fingerprints all over it.

What do you think America has to gain from this assassination?