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At the risk of sounding grounchy, the Olympics is one of the show a lot of people actually want to get cancelled. Population was mostly against it. And a part

by hrktb 7y ago

At the risk of sounding grounchy, the Olympics is one of the show a lot of people actually want to get cancelled. Population was mostly against it. And a part of it would have been about “volunteers” (like school/university kids/sponsor company employees requested by their board to participate due to lack of actual volunteers) working in the heat of the summer for a for profit organisation getting super preferential tax and financing treatment. We have global events every year centered about the athletes, I wont be crying any tears for the IOC and officials not getting their payback.

chrispeel 7y ago
> ...a lot of people... Do you mean many Japanese?
- hrktb 7y ago
  yes. I know very few people irl that are positive about the impact, and the polls where mostly negative as well (except those done by the IOC itself, who got up to 70% support at some point, go figure) Anectodtaly that’s the usual reaction I see about the event: https://twitter.com/audiophilefreak/status/1238627067727458306?s=21 https://twitter.com/audiophilefreak/status/12386270677274583...