The IOC and Olympic host city Tokyo have issued athletes a 70-page rulebook for reducing Covid-19 risk: but there are plenty more pitfalls that could disrupt the Games. Global Translations shares some worst case scenarios 👇
on July 15 that there was "zero" risk of athletes passing on the virus to local residents, but his first vice president, America’sdisagrees. She told Global Translations in an interview: “We all have to be worried. We know that this is a highly dangerous virus that’s going around, and of course the variants are even worse.”for reducing Covid risk: but there’s plenty more that could disrupt that Games.
Protesters march in Tokyo during a demonstration against the forthcoming Olympic Games. | Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty ImagesLocal infection outbreak risk: high risk but manageableare a small percentage of the average 1,180 new cases per day in Tokyo over the past week.
Indoor body contact sports taking place in the second week of the Games — such as wrestling, karate and judo — face the highest risk of cancellation.Olympic Covid screw-ups are more likely to have a knock-on effect for the Paralympics, which are set to begin August 24. That’s partially because Olympic competitions have already started, it would take time to attribute a super-spreader event, and because so much money is tied up in the Olympics via sponsorship and television.
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