with all due respect, the "regular guy" is right. there is no way the Olympics could be postponed for another two months, or moved to the US as some have suggested (I am not sure that is a serious suggestion). it is not possible for a number of reasons. 1. Olympic Village - the apartments were sold to the Japanese public. They were expected to move in 2020. These people, they own the apartments. It is a very complicated negotiation to keep them out of the apartments they have purchased. You don't move that for another two months. 2. There are contracts related to the use of the venues. Some are private venues. Some are public venues. Others are public/private. Think if you are the owner of a certain venue, that has been approved by the International Federation, according to all the demanding standards to organise OG. Then you want to extend the contract for another two months. Right, but I am the owner of the venue, and I have signed other contracts of use after the Olympics is finished. I can't just cancel all my contracts because you need to postpone your event for another two months. Sorry, I need my venue in October. You need to honour your contract to use my venue in July and leave it afterwards. Oh, you need to postpone your event? Great, go find another venue. Good luck on having it changed, approved, communicated and with operations planned for all the stakeholders involved in two months. 3. People. Staffing. Lots of staffing required to organise and operate the Games are International. Full time employees of the organising committee in Japan. Some of them left in 2020, but the situation was more or less controlled - the event was postponed for a year. There was time to renegotiate contracts, or hire new employees. Postponing for another two months? Forget it! These individuals will leave Japan. Without them you simply don't operate the Games. 4. You also don't deliver the Games without volunteers. Really, you don't. Have you been to the Olympics before? There are 50,000 of them. Many are International individuals since language is a key factor. Especially in Japan. How do you expect to get language-skilled volunteers available for your event for nearly 30 days on such a short notice - "sorry, you had committed to volunteer for us in July, surprise, we now need you in October!!". It becomes a huge operational problem. (yes, 17 days of competition, but everyone arrives a week or two before and leave up to a week after competition is finished). These examples do not even scratch the surface of all the reasons for why it is, simply put, impossible to postpone the Olympics for two months.
Taro wrote:
a regular guy wrote:
No. False. It took them an year to re-plan the event and renotiate all the contracts, some of which are still issues (the Olympic Village for instance), as well as to hire people to deliver the event and substitute those who left last year.
Specifically what contracts did they have to renegotiate? The Japanese media report on every aspect of the Games in excruciating detail, and I've seen no reporting in the Japanese media on any of the supposed problems you mentioned (I live in Japan).
To have any credibility, you'll need to document these contract problems with some credible links.
But if postponing the Games by another 60 days really isn't possible because of contracts, they'll have to be canceled, as most Japanese and virtually all Japanese medical experts are demanding.
After all, they're called games for a reason.