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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 21, 2021 20:13:41 GMT -5
EDIT: The Times article may not be the official source here, but an announcement is still expected soon
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Jan 21, 2021 20:16:55 GMT -5
Understandable for obvious reasons but still sucks.
Think this is the first time an Olympics has had to be canceled during peacetime.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jan 21, 2021 21:23:46 GMT -5
get ready for the "breakaway olympia" then, according to the times ... and then six months later they put it out there again ... with CONCRETE PLANS IN PLACE!
or just do it virtually
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 21, 2021 21:34:00 GMT -5
A report in The Times isn’t official.
I do think they’ll be cancelled or delayed again but I’d rather wait until it’s in an article not behind a paywall.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 21, 2021 21:57:03 GMT -5
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 22, 2021 5:15:58 GMT -5
My biggest disappointment if this true, is that we won’t get to see the Japanese take of the Opening & Closing Ceremonies.
That was what I looking forward to the most since I heard Tokyo got the games. It would have been a celebration of Japanese history and culture.. it would have been epic.
Well it may still happen, if not this year, in another decade or so.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jan 22, 2021 6:04:23 GMT -5
Japan has been hopeful to leg it until the summer. They wanted this event to be a celebration of humanity "overcoming the Coronavirus."
If this is true, and if I'm Japan, I make China foot the bill for everything involved of the planning for these Olympics. It's their fault we're in this mess in the first place.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2021 6:09:23 GMT -5
It's their fault we're in this mess in the first place. Pandemics happen. They could have managed it better certainly (granted so could a ton of other places), but with the world as interconnected as it is now there was no possible way something this slow to detect and easy to spread wouldn't eventually make its way around the planet. |
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 22, 2021 9:07:43 GMT -5
NBC believes it's a go, but I dunno...
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jan 22, 2021 12:07:33 GMT -5
Japan is saying they are focused on getting it done but it is also being said quietly they realize they may not get a chance to do it and will put a bid in for the olympics in 10 years
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Jan 22, 2021 17:20:21 GMT -5
It would also be the second time they lost the Olympics - they were set to host in 1940 before WWII broke out.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 22, 2021 17:25:51 GMT -5
It would also be the second time they lost the Olympics - they were set to host in 1940 before WWII broke out. They lost the 1940 Olympics as they were at war with China. They had all ready switched the venue to Helsinki and those were the ones cancelled due to WW2. |
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Post by salz4life on Jan 25, 2021 10:47:42 GMT -5
I'd be pleasantly surprised if we see the Olympics this year. If we don't, when do we start discuss the '22 Winter Games?
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Post by floundertime on Jan 28, 2021 16:50:35 GMT -5
Just do the summer and winter in 22, then so summer again in 24. This has been done before when they switched them from both being same year to alternating every 2 years. We had a winter in 92 and 94
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Post by lucas_lee on Jan 31, 2021 14:38:10 GMT -5
If they put in a bid in 10 years they should be given it. Its not their fault this happened
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