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Will the IOC cancel the Tokyo Olympics?
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The Tokyo Olympics are now just two months away and calls to ditch the Games in the face of the pandemic are getting louder by the day in Japan. A coronavirus state of emergency has been extended in the capital Tokyo and three other major prefectures as cases continue to rise.
The IOC own regulations say they can cancel the games if "the IOC has reasonable grounds to believe, in its sole discretion, that the safety of participants in the Games would be seriously threatened or jeopardised for any reason whatsoever". Surely the pandemic is such grounds?
The IOC own regulations say they can cancel the games if "the IOC has reasonable grounds to believe, in its sole discretion, that the safety of participants in the Games would be seriously threatened or jeopardised for any reason whatsoever". Surely the pandemic is such grounds?
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They should do but just like still playing the CL final in Portugal they probably won’t. Common sense seems to have gone out the window.1
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Probably should, probably won’t1
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The Olympics will not go ahead - my prediction anyway.
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Reckless act of self importance if they do go ahead and any national teams associations that participate should be held accountable for when and if it goes wrong.
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Not just the ICO, I'd imagine the Japanese organisers want it to go ahead too as otherwise there going to lose a bombaddick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !0 -
Saw a BBC news report about this yesterday. From that, I can't see how it can go ahead0
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What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
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Give it up FFSaddick1956 said:
The Olympic Committee is a fat cuckoo that drains national coffers and makes ludicrous demands. It cost us 12 billion and for what ? A new venue for Whammies.cafcfan1990 said:
Not just the ICO, I'd imagine the Japanese organisers want it to go ahead too as otherwise there going to lose a bombaddick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The only winners are the IOC. In its wake are crumbling stadia, mostly rarely used after the event and bankrupt states who should have built hospitals and schools and better housing.
It is an abysmal why to conduct business. A big flag waving Yahoo at the expense of the poorest in the end.9 -
Will you give up with this £12bn bollocks. You've been informed numerous times that figure includes the massive sums to regenerate large swathes of East London wastelands.addick1956 said:
The Olympic Committee is a fat cuckoo that drains national coffers and makes ludicrous demands. It cost us 12 billion and for what ? A new venue for Whammies.cafcfan1990 said:
Not just the ICO, I'd imagine the Japanese organisers want it to go ahead too as otherwise there going to lose a bombaddick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The only winners are the IOC. In its wake are crumbling stadia, mostly rarely used after the event and bankrupt states who should have built hospitals and schools and better housing.
It is an abysmal why to conduct business. A big flag waving Yahoo at the expense of the poorest in the end.
The London Olympics were a massive success and united the whole nation in a celebration of sporting prowess over the whole summer. London was buzzing throughout the whole spectacular.15 -
Cancel? No.
Postpone to 2022? Yes.
Don't think IOC will act.0 - Sponsored links:
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The competitions will be overshadowed by covid outbreaks and constant political statements by the athletes. Cancel it now.0
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Will they lose out on that much if there's no spectators? Surely that's one of the main drivers to hosting, the increased tourism.cafcfan1990 said:
Not just the ICO, I'd imagine the Japanese organisers want it to go ahead too as otherwise there going to lose a bombaddick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
Should just it to next year, or let Japan host the next one and roll the following games onto whoever was going to host that.0 -
Let's cancel the World Cup whilst we're at it.addick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.0 -
you said all the other sports that have their own world eventsaddick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.
the first three sports I thought of were athletics, rowing and swimming and they all have their own world championships
In fact the only Olympic sports I can think of, off the top of my head that dont have their own world championships are boxing and tennis
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Baseball? It has a “World Series” but I’m not sure that’s the same as having a world championship?MrOneLung said:
you said all the other sports that have their own world eventsaddick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.
the first three sports I thought of were athletics, rowing and swimming and they all have their own world championships
In fact the only Olympic sports I can think of, off the top of my head that dont have their own world championships are boxing and tennis0 -
This you bro?addick1956 said:
The Olympic Committee is a fat cuckoo that drains national coffers and makes ludicrous demands. It cost us 12 billion and for what ? A new venue for Whammies.cafcfan1990 said:
Not just the ICO, I'd imagine the Japanese organisers want it to go ahead too as otherwise there going to lose a bombaddick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The only winners are the IOC. In its wake are crumbling stadia, mostly rarely used after the event and bankrupt states who should have built hospitals and schools and better housing.
It is an abysmal why to conduct business. A big flag waving Yahoo at the expense of the poorest in the end.
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Possibly - although I think baseball is one of the hosts guest sports.
Don't think it will be in next Olympics0 -
The hosts nation's share of the global television rights - that's the big bucks they will miss out on.Croydon said:
Will they lose out on that much if there's no spectators? Surely that's one of the main drivers to hosting, the increased tourism.cafcfan1990 said:
Not just the ICO, I'd imagine the Japanese organisers want it to go ahead too as otherwise there going to lose a bombaddick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
Should just it to next year, or let Japan host the next one and roll the following games onto whoever was going to host that.1 -
Amateur boxing (which used to be the case in the Olympics!) has its own World Championships.MrOneLung said:
you said all the other sports that have their own world eventsaddick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.
the first three sports I thought of were athletics, rowing and swimming and they all have their own world championships
In fact the only Olympic sports I can think of, off the top of my head that dont have their own world championships are boxing and tennis2 -
I say bring back chess to the Olympics.addick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.0 - Sponsored links:
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In 1900 in Paris they used live pigeons rather than clay pigeons in the shooting event.0
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The Olympics is the pinnacle of those 3 sports though. Indeed the World Athletics Championships didn't start until 1983MrOneLung said:
you said all the other sports that have their own world eventsaddick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.
the first three sports I thought of were athletics, rowing and swimming and they all have their own world championships
In fact the only Olympic sports I can think of, off the top of my head that dont have their own world championships are boxing and tennis
To me the criteria for whether a sport should be in the Olympics is whether an Olympic Gold is the pinnacle of that sport, the thing that everyone remembers, the medal that you treasure most
For athletics, swimming, amateur boxing, rowing, track cycling, wrestling, hockey etc that's clearly the case.
For the likes of football (especially men's), tennis, golf etc that's not the case.2 -
it's been a huge investment for the Japanese and of course they are keen to let it go ahead .. But no/only a very few overseas spectators will be let into the country, a lot of athletes will boycott the games, so the result would be a down graded TV only second rate tournament. It should be postponed until next spring/summer, that will be the only sensible outcome0
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I agree - was just responding to the barrage of posts from the other user.killerandflash said:
The Olympics is the pinnacle of those 3 sports though. Indeed the World Athletics Championships didn't start until 1983MrOneLung said:
you said all the other sports that have their own world eventsaddick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.
the first three sports I thought of were athletics, rowing and swimming and they all have their own world championships
In fact the only Olympic sports I can think of, off the top of my head that dont have their own world championships are boxing and tennis
To me the criteria for whether a sport should be in the Olympics is whether an Olympic Gold is the pinnacle of that sport, the thing that everyone remembers, the medal that you treasure most
For athletics, swimming, amateur boxing, rowing, track cycling, wrestling, hockey etc that's clearly the case.
For the likes of football (especially men's), tennis, golf etc that's not the case.0 -
I think the Olympics is a huge waste of money however much I like sport. There are so many wasted facilities that have been built.
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and painting - we won gold in "Oils and Water colours" at London 1948bobmunro said:
I say bring back chess to the Olympics.addick1956 said:
The Olympics is the main athletics event isn't it. Rowing...not athletics.MrOneLung said:
What like athletics, rowing, swimming …addick1956 said:Cowardly IOC. Always dictating like an unwanted Cuckoo....what about the Japanese people then ?
Perhaps on future we can have an Olympics without tennis , football and all the other sports that have their own world events !
The Olympics is too bug , too expensive a d doesn't need new venues every 4 years either. Use existing ones.1 -
Other than the mess of the main stadium, the London Olympics was pretty well done. The facilities left in the park, like the velodrome, swimming pool and Copper Box are all useful, while other venues were temporary and taken down and used elsewherehoof_it_up_to_benty said:I think the Olympics is a huge waste of money however much I like sport. There are so many wasted facilities that have been built.
It helped that we had existing nearby venues that could also be used (like the O2 and ExCeL)4 -
But other than the regeneration of wasteland, the swimming pool, the loads of new jobs, the copper box, the velodrome, the added economic boost to one of the poorest areas in London and extra housing - what did the Olympics ever do for us?addick1956 said:
Still a waste of money.13 -
And the roads, don't forget the roads.cafc999 said:
But other than the regeneration of wasteland, the swimming pool, the loads of new jobs, the copper box, the velodrome, the added economic boost to one of the poorest areas in London and extra housing - what did the Olympics ever do for us?addick1956 said:
Still a waste of money.9 -
And the 11,000 new homes.
An the income from subsequent events.
IOC report suggesting over $40 billion in benefits up to last year.
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