South Australia s top doctor Professor Nicola Spurrier has reportedly twice this week demanded the state close its borders as the Omicron crisis deepens.
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They were run – literally – with military precision, but even they were a seething mass of humanity with people jammed into buses and venues, rubbing up against each other and sharing personal space.
Some of the others, like Atlanta and Athens, felt more like hastily pulled together school sports on steroids that seemed to splutter along to the finish line in spite of themselves.
I have no doubt that the Tokyo Games would be at the high end of the organisational spectrum, but anyone who thinks they could – or more importantly, should – be held while the COVID pandemic is still raging around the world is kidding themselves.