Media Watch: Tokyo Doubts, Hopes 05/05/21
“Where, exactly, does the IOC get off imperiously insisting that the Games must go on, when fully 72 percent of the Japanese public is reluctant or unwilling to entertain 15,000 foreign athletes and officials in the midst of a pandemic?” queries Jenkins in the open of her column.
NY Times Reports Games Might be OK
“A Covid-free Olympics seems unlikely. The question will be whether Japan can quickly identify, isolate and treat people who get the virus.
“In this way, the Games may present a particularly intense version of the balance that many countries will be trying to achieve in 2021 moving back to normal life while avoiding a new wave of a deadly virus,” Leonhardt writes.