lmb wrote:
I do not know what to say. This news just @ 7::35 Saturday
Time to give the games to someone else. Just do a vaccine passport or get your own citizens vaccinated. The pandemic will be over by then.
lmb wrote:
I do not know what to say. This news just @ 7::35 Saturday
Time to give the games to someone else. Just do a vaccine passport or get your own citizens vaccinated. The pandemic will be over by then.
Lorenzo de Zavala wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Any fan of T&F cares.
And these are 5 people on here?
On a serious note, it is actually difficult to find some numbers on the web about this.
But T&F is not popping up in the top 10 for sure.
https://sportytell.com/sports/top-10-most-popular-sports-in-america/
You do realize the USA is not the only country in the world right? And a lot more people watch the olympics when those days come. They're not going anywhere. This olympics will just be different then all the others(I hope this never happens again while I'm alive).
I'll have to think about this a little further. What I need to consider is just exactly what position I can take that will signal my virtue the clearest to the people I am most interested in impressing. Let me run it by an informal focus group and I'll state my position shortly.
Lorenzo de Zavala wrote:
Who cares?
Olympics should just go away.
This seems like a slanted viewpoint.
Lorenzo de Zavala wrote:
Who cares?
Olympics should just go away.
I would be more interested in the Olympics if it were population weighted. 5,000 athletes with each country sending a number of athletes in proportion to global population.
These would be the counts for the largest countries:
China 895
India 875
United States 211
Indonesia 173
Pakistan 144
Brazil 136
Nigeria 135
Bangladesh 109
Russia 94
Mexico 82
Japan 80
Philippines 70
Ethiopia 70
DR Congo 68
Egypt 65
Lorenzo de Zavala wrote:
On a serious note, it is actually difficult to find some numbers on the web about this.
But T&F is not popping up in the top 10 for sure.
https://sportytell.com/sports/top-10-most-popular-sports-in-america/
What's funny is the top sport on that list, wouldn't be popping up in the top 10 for pretty much every other country in the world ;)
Not to the same extent, but likewise with Basketball and Baseball (those do have followings in China, Japan, etc).
Also, lol at Pro Wrestling being at number 10 in a list of "sports".
if there's one event that's still high risk to be canceled its the Olympics.
I'm really hoping it goes off though!
just to add to this, when they postponed they should have postponed it to September 2021.
Thank God. Rich world travelling jetset business people got us in to this. We don't need 100k of them spreading yet another variant worldwide.
How the heck do you get your horse to Japan for the equestrian events? Seems like a huge, expensive, dangerous hassle
If the Olympics gets canceled I’m going to be devastated not being able to see Cole Hocker win the gold LOL.
Seriously, I hope it doesn’t get canceled.
wejo wrote:
Media might be next on the chopping block. I bought Jon Gault's ticket this week, but we don't have media hotels and the organizers haven't given us a way to book. The official bookings were done in 2019. We figured we'd do Airbnb like we did in Rio. But since this fall I've been emailing organizers and saying "hey we need a way to get an official hotel room." They have written me back essentially saying they'll figure something out later.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the media. The London Olympics had somewhere between 25,000 and 28,000 media people. America's NBC TV network alone sent 2,700 people, enough to warrant the charter of three Boeing 777 aircraft to help get them in and out. I cannot see the Tokyo Olympics allowing similar numbers of people. I suspect there will be a significant cap on media quotas and interviews will be conducted by Zoom, not face to face.
I don't think we will be seeing pictures like this
https://i.insider.com/57ab3669ce38f2e3058b5bc3?width=1100&format=jpeg&auto=webpour death rate is over 12 times that of japan. if we were hosting the olympics do you think they would come here? if they could exclude just the 5-10 worst covid actor nations they would maybe allow visitors . they are protecting their citizens and giving the athletes a chance to compete. good for them.
Practically every athlete from the recently concluded European Indoors now Covid positive. Imagine this on a larger scale at the Olympics. It's going to be interesting. ..
I mean what’s more disappointing - this or cancelling the entire thing and destroying the dreams of 12000 athletes around the world?
I think it’s a sacral thing
Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:
I mean what’s more disappointing - this or cancelling the entire thing and destroying the dreams of 12000 athletes around the world?
I think it’s a sacral thing
J-sus the phone went nuts there. Let’s try again.
I think it’s a sacrifice we can all make on behalf of the athletes whose actual games it is.
This isn’t a bad thing - it’s a positive step to showing these games might happen.
I’m curious how much money organizers will lose if they cannot sell out the venues.