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Tag: Summer Olympics
IOC president cancels Japan trip as COVID cases spike — remind me again how safe the games will be
Well this isn’t the best look. Read more…
Japanese citizens would like to massively limit fans at Olympics they still don’t want
We have exactly 100 days until the Olympic cauldron is lit in Tokyo, but the host nation isn’t doing much to fan the flames of enthusiasm. Read more…
The U.S. should boycott the Beijing Olympics because it’s the Olympics
No one seriously expects the U.S., or any of its allies, to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Read more…
Tokyo Olympics to be held without foreign fans
Most Japanese citizens don’t want the large international event to begin with. But now, according to the Kyodo News, the Japanese government will not allow foreign spectators to attend this summer’s Olympics and Paralympic Games. The decision to bar overseas fans, according to the report, stems from lingering concerns… Read more…
Laughingstock of Japan Yoshiro Mori won’t resign from Olympic committee gig
It’s been a rough week for Yoshiro Mori. After spouting sexist comments and igniting a media firestorm in Japan, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said he will not resign. Read more…
Tokyo Olympic organizers raise giant middle finger to Japanese citizens
Last month, a Kyodo News poll found that 80 percent of Japanese citizens favor canceling or postponing this year’s Olympic games. Today, Tokyo Olympic organizers vowed to hold the games in the summer. Read more…
The Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics are off … or not … maybe
It would be very….I guess we call it “this age” as 2021 hasn’t really separated itself from 2020 yet, for leagues like the NBA, NHL, various soccer leagues, and UEFA as a whole to avoid the Olympics like the plague, and then watch them canceled. Read more…
Crystal Ball 2021: Predictions for the Market, politics, Tech, and Much more
In the event that you believed 2020 had been an erratic season, you likely were not paying attention. For more than ten years, epidemiologists have sounded the warning a once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic could ravage the entire world, and that the most innovative countries were ill-prepared to its fallout. In 2021, we’ll face challenges both comfortable and […]