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

[donley2]

Are any nations/WA working to get their athletes vaccinated before the OG to help calm these fears?

https://indianexpress.com/article/ex...ation-7210614/

[proofs in the pudd'in]

https://indianexpress.com/article/ex...ation-7210614/

I hope all of them be by that time just to calm everybody's concerns.

[Conor Dary]

Japan backpedals on plan to let people choose COVID-19 vaccine


Vaccinations for people age 65 and over are set to begin April 12 across the country, but the initial rollout will be limited and uneven at the local level, Kono said in an interview Monday.

"It will be very slow,” Kono said. "The prefectural governors asked us to go slowly so that they can check the systems and so that all the cities and towns can get ready for the vaccinations.”

One time-consuming issue slowing the rollout is the need for doctors to learn a new technical system to track vaccine numbers, Kono said.

Japan is still limiting COVID-19 vaccines to health care workers, with more than 780,000 first vaccine doses administered in Japan as of Monday — a number that accounts for less than 1% of its more than 125 million residents.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ice-backtrack/

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile....

As tensions with China grow, Biden administration formalizes genocide declaration against Beijing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...398_story.html

[Trickstat]

The European Youth (U18) Champs in late August have been cancelled.

https://european-athletics.com/news/...ips-cancelled-

[Vault-emort]

Are any nations/WA working to get their athletes vaccinated before the OG to help calm these fears?

New Zealand has announced that any citizens representing their country at an important international event (eg OG) will be vaccinated.

[Tuariki]

New Zealand has announced that any citizens representing their country at an important international event (eg OG) will be vaccinated.

Saint Jacinda to the fore again

[TN1965]

This woman might have just saved the OG.

Leukemia Survivor Rikako Ikee Qualifies for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

https://swimswam.com/leukemia-surviv...olympic-games/

[Conor Dary]

Should the Tokyo Olympics be canceled because of COVID?

https://news.yahoo.com/should-the-to...153839920.html

[Atticus]

I think we're at the Go/No-go juncture now, so it sure looks like a Go.

[Conor Dary]

Without fans...the no go could come anytime....there is no deadline....they stopped the NCAA sports on a moment's notice last year...

I just don't see them happening..they are in the denial stage ..outside the US the situation is as bad as a year ago....if not worse...

Even if they vaccinated everyone coming in, which is unlikely, it is unknown if they can still spread covid....where hardly anyone is vaccinated....cases are up even here...and Europe is on lockdown...

Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/h...-walensky.html

[Atticus]

Without fans...the no go could come anytime....there is no deadline....they stopped the NCAA sports on a moment's notice last year...]

Not even remotely the same.

[Conor Dary]

Not even remotely the same.

Not if you follow the news outside of the US....


Brazil’s Covid Crisis Is a Warning to the Whole World, Scientists Say

Brazil is seeing a record number of deaths, and the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant that may cause reinfection.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/w...d-variant.html

[Conor Dary]

And canceling would be easy....don't come....doing refunds is the hard part and that is already happening....

[Atticus]

And canceling would be easy....don't come....doing refunds is the hard part and that is already happening....

I guess we'll see, but where there's a will (and the LOC seems hell-bent on having them), there's a way.