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TOKYO (Reuters) – The Tokyo Olympics will have a different feel with spectators banned from the venues due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Friday promised athletes a global digital audience of billions.
On Thursday, Tokyo Games organisers decided the July 23- Aug. 8 Olympics would take place without spectators as a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the Games.
“This was a really difficult one and we all regret the consequences for you the athletes but also for the spectators,” Bach said from Tokyo in a video message to athletes.
“But it was a decision which was necessary to ensure a safe Olympic Games. I hope we all agree that the most important thing is that the Olympic Games are happening.”
Without spectators, Japan is now all but deprived of its hopes for a Games with pomp and public spectacle. The government and organisers had long seen the event as a chance to display the country’s recovery from a devastating 2011 earthquake and nuclear crisis. more here
I won’t be watching anyway….
If a tranny leftist angry cunt athlete protests the American flag and no one is around to hear her, does it really make a sound?
Olympics? What are they? I may watch certain events because I have relatives competing, but it will not be on my daily watch list.
It’s my mistake to think Japan was much stronger than…..this type of shit.
Likewise, I naively believed Japan would not be bought.
My bad.
Watching guys run in women’s competition isn’t appealing.
How about a Zoom Olympics? No fans, no venues, no events. But plenty of safety.
@Gunny — Neither will I. The Games have been spoiled.
I can date the onset of my decreasing interest in watching the Olympic Games to 1972¹. That was when ABC started their “Up Close and Personal” segments. Those actually were fine and I enjoyed knowing a bit more about the athletes and how they trained for the Games. But that was the start of the dilution of the athletics with an ever increasing proportion of touchy-feely slop.
Will somebody please let me know if they ever again start televising only the competitive events accompanied by brief bios of the athletes? Unlikely, I know.
1. I knew it was in the 70s or early 80s and had to look it up.
Once again, the WEF Great Reset kills another part of the world’s life. Sports – in this case the Olympics – with no fans is nothing more than just another practice – no cheering, no crowd urging the athlete’s on. No excitement.
I’m sure they have plenty of those cardboard “fans” from the early days of Covid.
The liberal, democratic, Marxist, commies are hell bent on destroying EVERYTHING that made/makes America great.
And, in so doing, it keeps US off balance.
Always keep that in mind.
Fuck You!
Grifting Cocksuckers.
@LBS
Your a poet!
Cheers! made me laugh
LBS is turly gifted! BRAVO!
That’s TRULY!!! Damn Jack Daniels spell checler!
^Doc, I heer you.
I.m more of a Bim Jeam man mysellf.
@Uncle Al
My thoughts also. First heard that bio crap in the Olympics of the seventies and found it unnecessary and a waste of my time. Personally I think it was an appeal to women who seem to enjoy digging into people’s personal stories. That’s why we have People and such like magazines. Men, other than queers, don’t care too much about that sort of stuff.
Ladies, you know it’s true.
What if they gave an Olympics and nobody watched?
I stopped watching the olympics when they removed doing the compulsary figures’ from figure skating. I loved watching that. The competitors said it was too hard. I do watch clips of the judo, but they rarely show much of it, and have turned that into a political fiasco, too.
Bob Costas ruined it for me.
The Japs… nuked too much, or not enough?
Should match the “NO ratings” as well. 😳