Tokyo Olympics ... [no foreign fans] [no fans period]

[Atticus]

How about a Florida 'Tokyo Olympics'?!

Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages, Florida’s chief financial officer is pitching the Sunshine State as a replacement host of the 2021 Olympics.

I'll officiate the PV!

[NotDutra5]

I don't know. I don't like it all crammed in together. 6 weeks of Olympics would work for me.

Same debate I had last night with my wife as to why the Super Bowl is on Sunday evening and not during the afternoon or Saturday Night. "It's not about you who'll watch it with me. It's about those who don't normally tune in.

[donley2]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/japa...pic-games.html

[TN1965]

US Olympic swim trials split into 2 meets because of COVID

The U.S. Olympic swimming trials will be split into two meets, a striking change designed to provide safer conditions on the pool deck in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

https://sports.yahoo.com/us-olympic-...154511837.html

[Halfmiler2]

Nope. Even a two week Olympics is long enough. I spent a month in Atlanta in summer 1996 for Trials and Games. I did not have a job. I don't know how those who did managed.

I ran short of vacation days to officiate both the OT and OG and had to take two unpaid days off. I also had to skip the USATF Annual Meeting later in the year in San Francisco at which Ollan Cassel lost leading to a change in leadership.

A colleague and fellow clerk in Atlanta was a teacher had to take almost the entire OT without pay from his job because it was during the end of the NJ school year.

[gh]

I can't swear to the veracity of the numbers in this tweet (by someone I don't know)

The Recount
@therecount

Florida makes a bid to host the 2021 Summer Olympics — if Tokyo backs out due to COVID.

Japan population: 126 million
Florida population: 21 million

Japan COVID cases: 372K
Florida COVID cases: 1.7M

Japan COVID deaths: 5,297
Florida COVID deaths: 25,445

[Atticus]

There's no way Florida should be hosting anything this summer. We are too hot, literally and figuratively.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile....I don't think is how it works....

Tokyo Olympics member says games going ahead 'is up to the U.S.'



https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ber-games-u-s/

[Conor Dary]

Experts Question Florida Bid To Host 2021 Summer Olympics: ‘Mind-Bogglingly Stupid’



https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6...b61cb9534ec938

[Conor Dary]

“The idea that just because Florida has a lot of hotels that they could organize an entire Olympics event within six months is absolutely crazy,” Matheson said.

[Atticus]

“The idea that just because Florida has a lot of hotels that they could organize an entire Olympics event within six months is absolutely crazy,” Matheson said.

We certainly have the infrastructure to hold it this year if need be, but . . . it would indeed be crazy to try under these circumstances.
And, I'm not so sure you want central Florida summer weather for an Olympics.

[bambam1729]

We certainly have the infrastructure to hold it this year if need be, but . . . it would indeed be crazy to try under these circumstances.
And, I'm not so sure you want central Florida summer weather for an Olympics.

In 1996 I thought Atlanta weather was as cool as I had seen the southeastern USA ever - and I lived at the same climate in Durham, NC for almost 40 years. Yet the Europeans thought it was stifling and brutally hot. And last year I had a short twitter back-and-forth with a European Olympic writer who was telling me how Chicago was too hot in the summertime for sports - Chicago! They would go crazy if you tried to hold an Olympics in Florida in the summer.

[TN1965]

Insurers face 'mind-blowingly' large loss if Olympics cancelled

Insurers are facing a $2-3 billion loss if the Tokyo Olympics are cancelled this year, amounting to the largest ever claim in the global event cancellation market, brokers say.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN29W1OH

[TN1965]

IOC President Thomas Bach reiterates full commitment to Tokyo 2020 Games

Appearing through video link, Bach outlined the full commitment to "the successful and safe delivery of Tokyo 2020" in 2021, supporting all 206 National Olympic Committees (NOC's). IOC Playbooks are currently drafted to outline coronavirus countermeasures for the Games.

https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/st...ll-commitment/

[lonewolf]

I guess I was life long acclimated. I did not think Atlanta was that hot. An opinion apparently not shared by the European decathlete who stripped down to his jockstrap in the infield.