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At this rate the Tokyo olympics might be cancelled.
by manojlds 7y ago
At this rate the Tokyo olympics might be cancelled.
- agumonkey 7y agoWasn't there something similar in Brazil few years ago ?
- mongol 7y agoWill the entire 2020 olympics be cancelled in that case? Or would it be moved or postponed?
- rtkwe 7y agoIt's too late to move it. The run up to hosting an Olympics lasts years and even recent hosts like Rio (2016) would have to do a lot of work to refresh facilities. [0] [0] As soon as a year after they were already just sitting empty and falling into disrepair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMgPEz29abI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMgPEz29abI
- jerf 7y agoIf it gets serious enough for Japan to cancel, nobody else is going to be able to host it either. It's supposed to be a worldwide competition, there's no point having it if half the world can't attend and the other half really, really doesn't want to.
- rtkwe 7y agoIf national quarantine's were holding in theory they could maybe move it if another venue were possible. It'd be shocking to say the least, the only Olympics that have been skipped in the modern era were '16, '40 and '44 and that's because there were the World Wars going on at the time. The closest I think we've gotten to a similar scare would be SARS on 2002 but that was just starting iirc when the winter games in Salt Lake City started.
- _fs 7y agoWould it be fair to assume Japan may be downplaying the outbreak so that they do not risk losing the 2020 Olympics? It's quite a large investment that would get no return if it were to be cancelled.