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Well, the fair outcome would be that Tokyo was cancelled altogether, if the allegations of corruptions [1] are true. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016
by tomp 11y ago
Well, the fair outcome would be that Tokyo was cancelled altogether, if the allegations of corruptions [1] are true.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/11/tokyo-olympics-payment-diack-2020-games https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/11/tokyo-olympics...
- big_youth 11y agoWow, Japan is generally known as being clean and corruption free. I can only imagine the type of bribes Brazil and Russia handed out.
- pound 11y agoclean - yes, but corruption free? corruption is everywhere. if you have powers and decisions making you'll get corruption. look at lobbying in US - that's pretty much buying decisions. huge corps giving money to presidential candidates in US now - are there no strings attached and no further expectations?
- bsder 11y ago> Wow, Japan is generally known as being clean and corruption free. Huh? This is the home of the keiretsu and the yakuza, you know. Corruption among the political elite is a standard assumption among the Japanese.