“Tokyo’s Olympics were adjourned on Wednesday for one hundred days. Despite ongoing COVID-19 cases, many of Japan’s scandals and massive opposition to holding the Games are pushing forward organizers and the IOC. Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 celebrated the rapid recovery of Japan from World War II defeat. The footnotes and asterisks of these Olympics will be presenting. Athletes are aiming high, but elsewhere they will be modest: get past it, avoid becoming an exciting event, and encourage national pride in the knowledge that few more countries could have taken it away” said Craig Reddie, IOC vice president. “The administration is fully aware of Japan’s global views, Dr. Gill Steel, a political scientist at Kyoto’s Doshisha University, wrote an email. On an international level, the cancellation of the Olympics was seen to be a public failure”, he added.
“But several government audits indicate that there may be twice as much as possible and that public funds are all but USD 6.7 billion, 91 percent of its revenue from the sale of broadcasting rights and sponsorship is made available by the Swiss IOC. That amounts to at least USD 5 billion in the course of a four-year cycle, but a postponement has stalled revenue from networks such as the American NBC”, said Craig Reddie.
There’ll be no place to party with the neighborhood from abroad, tourism is out. It’s told athletes to come late, go early and maneuver around a maze of rules. Japan and the International Olympic Committee also have reputational costs like bribery, twisting, and recurring misogyny in the leadership of Tokyo’s Olympics. “The IOC is betting on Tokyo, the light will be the turnaround of the pandemic tunnel just six months before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is threatened with boycott. Different polls indicate that as many as 80% of Japanese want to cancel or postpone the Olympics. And there are a lot of scientists against it”, said Craig Reddie.
“Japan’s vaccine rollout was virtually non-existent, few shots will be shot before the start of the Olympics, and Tokyo has raised its warning level. Approximately 9,500 lives were caused by the COVID-19 in Japan, which was good through global measures and poor in Asia. There are also dangers to the heavily sponsored 10,000 racing torch relay that runs across Japan. Legs planned for Osaka this week were pulled out of the streets for COVID-19 boxes and moved to the city park without any supportive permission. Other legs throughout Japan will certainly be disturbed”, said Norio Sugaya, an infectious diseases expert at Keiyu Hospital in Yokohama.
“A year ago, the IOC and the Japanese politicians decided to postpone but not cancel the Olympics due to inertia and the clout of Japanese giant Dentsu Inc., whose local sponsorship recorded USD 3.5 billion, probably three times as much as any other Olympic game. The northeast of Japan still hurts a decade later, despite being charged for ‘recovery Olympics. Many blame the Olympics for their slow recovery and resource absorption”, said Craig Reddie.
It has been restored during the pandemic, during the best Olympics in history. Beautiful venues quickly grew, including Kengo Kuma’s USD 1.4 billion National Stadium, while the games were on track until the pandemic struck expensively. The Tokyo logo was dismissed following claims that it was plagiarized, the original stadium concept fell when costs rose by USD 2 billion, and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, organizing committee president, quashed two months ago when he made derogatory comments about women. Tokyo logo was dismissed. Hiroshi Sasaki, the artistic director, left for essentially the same reason a few weeks later, said Thomas Bach, IOC president.
