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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by blasphemous on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:00AM (#22420410)
Given how Japan handled the Diamond Princess situation, it's a foregone conclusion they are not equipped to handle it, so more than likely the Olympics will be cancelled. They just can't risk it. Athletes/Peoples safety can't be risked, the "Olympic" brand cant be risked.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by mattrp on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:40AM (#22420882)
There’s that plus all the qualifying events globally that have to take place between now and then...
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by baddox on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:49AM (#22420636)
Wouldn’t not canceling it when they should have be a better example of them not being able to handle the situation?
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by Drakar1903 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:04AM (#22423509)
Athletes are one thing.

The international flocking of people to one already overcrowded location is another.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by numpad0 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:21AM (#22420514)
Japanese Gov’t seems yet to decide whether to go cannonball or call it off entirely, currently bit on cannonball side which is how this deadline story came up.

If cancelled, this’ll be the second time an Olympic Games in Tokyo is cancelled, that I personally find hilarious, but a lot will be fuming embarrassed, especially if historians later likely is to mark it an uneducated overreaction.

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