The Olympics is a disaster

[Slow death]

I haven't even seen any of the Olympics this year.

 

I think you didn't miss much, it's a disaster and I don't understand why they insisted so much on doing it at this time when the covid is having many cases a day and the African countries are far from having at least vaccinated 5% of the population


I could see that greed was higher in this case, they forgot the virus and focused on the money, and the quality of the athletes is very low because many were stopped without competing for a long time, an example is the athletes from my country who didn't even make it to be in the top 10 of each competition, it was a shame and I don't even know what they were doing in japan

[Jazmin Leslie]

1. This is true. In many cases, interests are involved. Some people will always strike a balance between pros and cons. It is impossible for them not to consider how much damage the epidemic would cause to athletes, but they still chose to bear it and did not cancel it.So in the end, gaining benefits is more worthy of their risk than the outbreak.

2. Vaccines are not capable of defending against all viruses. If the virus mutates, can the vaccines we have ever used kill the mutated virus?

3.Hundreds of athletes from each country play games, and if they are infected, they may never have a chance to stand on the field again.
Some people have waited for this opportunity throughout their lives.Such a situation should be regarded as unlucky for the athletes themselves, or they should be praised and praised by their lives to promote the Olympic spirit.

[Alfreed]

This year, the participants in the Olympic Games have a particularly difficult time. there are no spectators, and even today I heard about the scandal with the Belarusian sportswoman, whom they wanted to forcibly take out of the country. Belarus is like North Korea with a sick dictator in power. sport should be outside of politics. but this rule is very often violated

[Gyfts]

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2021/8/2/best-moment-of-tokyo-2020-world-reacts-to-shared-olympic-gold

What a wholesome moment, two olympians share the Olympic gold medal in the high jump event.

Another story that caught my attention was this - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krystsina-tsimanouskaya-belarus-olympics-seeks-asylum/

Belarus obviously has a ton of problems governmentally, this olympian is seeking asylum and she was taken to a Polish embassy in Tokyo where she was granted asylum in Poland after refusing a forced flight home. She criticized the government and feared she would be killed for doing so. Good for her.

[Mauser]

If there is a major development with Covid this autumn/winter, history books will point to the olympics as the dumbest thing humanity has done.  I'm also not for closing the world down, far from it, we should embrace technology and remote work - including Bitcoin and cryptocurrency - for payments and wages across the globe.

Also its fine to go on vacation, but really, all inclusive resorts and cruises ?  Thats also a dumb terrible idea.  People want to go back to "normal".  There is no normal to go back to.  There is only adaptation and mitigation.

The problem is that most people were convinced to take the corona vaccine so that we can go back to a normal life. If after all the vaccination this year now the politicans would say that we need more lockdowns we would see a lot of more riots than we already see now. The Euro 2020 and the Olympic 2020 games are a way to show the world that we are going back to a normal way of life. Let's see how the long term effects are going to be. While Euro 2020 was with fans in the stadiums the Olympic games are very empty now.

[famososMuertos]

It is a breaking point that we live in the middle in many aspects, social, economic, political, health, that also leaves opinions on both sides.

So last year that break had more consensus to paralyze everything and all the parties agreed almost entirely, so there is no reason to scandalize the Olympics as a disaster, the benefits with the realization of these games are also important, which not only involve Japan this is an event of magnitude that involves the world.

[BlackPinker]

I saw an interesting saying before: The 40-year Olympic Curse:

• The 1900 Paris Olympic Games and the World Exposition were held together. Therefore, the Olympic Games are not taken seriously. The entire Olympic Games lasted for half a year and were called the Marathon Olympics.
• In 1940, the Tokyo Olympics. It was cancelled because Japan launched a war. Change to Helsinki, Finland（It seems that it is also the location of the server where Bitcoin dug the genesis block）
• In 1980, the Moscow Olympics, the former Soviet Union built the site with all its strength. Reluctantly because the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, it was boycotted by the United States and other countries. So only 80 countries participated
• 2020The COVID-19 outbreak. So the Olympics are affected again

If anyone knows the source of the article please remind me.

[Macadonian]

Why do people watch the olympics? People who have never been interested in these sports before but suddendly become interested when its on the olympics? I think its because governments shove it down our throats.

[Renampun]

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Olympics are held or not, covid 19 will not stop and will continue to spread...

The Tokyo Olympics cannot continue to be postponed because many European countries are ready to replace it. European countries have successfully held the euro with great crowds but nothing created new panic. Tokyo Olympics is coming to an end and it looks like athletes have to prepare for the next 4 years.

[verita1]

I feel your concern about Covid19 and the new variants that have emerged. Many of us are fearful of the Delta variant.
But I think the organizers had to study the conditions to be able to hold the Tokyo Olympics.
The security measures and their protocols to avoid contagion were taken. If the conditions were correct, humanity cannot be in a bubble, it has to come into contact with the virus and be protected so that they can respond with their immune systems.

My thinking is on the side of science, our best weapon against Covid19 is to follow biosecurity protocols and vaccination because there is no hope that the virus will be eradicated soon.

I only wish that the celebration of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was not a mistake due to all the fears that may arise.

"There will not be a single point where the pandemic ends; it will just transition, and has partially transitioned in states in which cases have been decoupled from hospitalizations," said @ JHSPH_CHS's @AmeshAA.

https://twitter.com/JohnsHopkinsSPH/status/1422939146788683786?s=19

[usernameyaya]

Yes, it turns out that some athletes have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. This is a red flag. Regardless of the preciousness of life, what is the meaning of hosting the Olympics?

[virasog]

We all know the Olympic Committee loves to accept bribes (see previous scandals) and the Japan economy kinda needs it, but now you know why 80% of people in Tokyo dont want the olympics.

I haven't really followed it closely but it seems like a waste of money and unlikely to help Japan's economy. I mean all recent Olympic games have been wasteful but in this case they don't even have the benefit of tourism to offset the cost.

I'm not sure if the games will have much of an impact on COVID-19 spread. With no fans and with aggressive testing/quarantines for athletes they might be able to get away with it.

Even with all these things, the authorities had to conduct the tornament. They can't delay it further because in 3 years time 2024, we have the next Olympics.
Japan may not have collected money from tourism or crowds but there is a lot of sponsorship these days. We cannot say that Japan did not earn any money by conducting the Olympics.
When we can have Euro 2020 and other sports in these times then why not Olympics ?