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Despite danger and cost, Japan gambles on successful Olympics

The Tokyo Olympic Games is reaching the point of no return.
With seven weeks until the opening ceremony, the Japanese government, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and major stakeholders are gambling political reputations and billions of dollars on staging an Olympics that could lift global spirits and show the world how to begin a return to normality or, in the worst case, it could create a superspreader event that savages Japan’s tottering economic recovery and blights the image of the world’s biggest sporting showcase.
Mired in controversy since the COVID-19 pandemic caused it to be delayed early last year, the Games ....

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Tokyo Olympics shouldn't be a superspreader. Cancel them


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Jules Boykoff
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(NYTIMES) The Tokyo Olympics are in big trouble. Postponed by a year and slated to begin in July, the Games have become a political flash point in Japan, where 60 per cent of the population opposes staging them this summer and where less than 2 per cent of the population is vaccinated for Covid-19. ....

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Opinion | A Sports Event Shouldn't Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics.


By Jules Boykoff
Mr. Boykoff is a political scientist who studies the Olympics. He is the author of “Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics.”
The Tokyo Olympics are in big trouble. Postponed by a year and slated to begin in July, the Olympics have become a political flash point in Japan, where almost 60 percent of the population opposes staging the Games this summer and where less than 2 percent of the population is vaccinated for Covid-19.
The International Olympic Committee, local Olympic organizers and Japan’s ruling party maintain that the Games must go on, even amid pandemic conditions. As Covid cases surged in Japan in January, Thomas Bach, the I.O.C.’s president, said he had “no reason whatsoever to believe that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will not open on July 23.” He added, “There is no Plan B.” ....

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