Despite calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics due to coronavirus cases, the city is opening its borders to tens of thousands of people because it's too expensive to halt the Games.
There’s always some variation of this debate, about whether the benefits of the Olympics justify the costs.
About the only person pretending the once-delayed Games are being staged for the public good is notoriously disingenuous International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who recently referred to the Japanese people as “the Chinese people” before quickly correcting himself. And she wrote: “The Games have already lost their meaning and are being held just for the sake of them. … We have been cornered into a situation where we cannot even stop now. We are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t.”
This is their moment: Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka, Hideki Matsuyama, Naoya Inoue and more Japanese athletes shine in unique ways on the global stage. “You have an event that has largely planned for respiratory-droplets prevention,” he said. “The science is now convincingly showing that this is an airborne virus, largely, which means it’s like cigarette smoke, it will float wherever.”“There’s been very little attention paid to the issue of ventilation,” he said. “Their answer was just open the windows. It’s going to be 90 degrees and humid in Tokyo, right?”“How will they do testing, and what will be the frequency of that?” he asked.
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