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Post by ironhammer on Mar 17, 2021 22:16:59 GMT -5
Pretty sure all the teams will get the shot before their arrival at Tokyo.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Mar 17, 2021 22:29:43 GMT -5
Pretty sure all the teams will get the shot before their arrival at Tokyo. I’d have to imagine it will be a non-negotiatiable and something achievable
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Post by ironhammer on Mar 20, 2021 9:41:25 GMT -5
Well, its officially confirmed by the Tokyo Olympic Committee, there will be no foreign spectators: tokyo2020.org/en/news/statement-on-overseas-spectators-for-the-olympic-and-paralympic-games-tokyo-2020Today, the Five Parties (the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), the Organising Committee Tokyo 2020 and the Government of Japan) met virtually. During the meeting, the IOC and IPC were informed, as outlined below, about the conclusion of the Japanese parties not to allow entry into Japan for overseas spectators for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 due to the prevailing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Olympic and Paralympic tickets purchased by overseas residents from the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee will be refunded.
Ever since the 2013 election of Tokyo as the host of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, all five parties have been preparing for the Tokyo 2020 Games with the goal of welcoming domestic and overseas spectators, celebrating the athletes, and embodying the values of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
However, following the postponement of the Games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese Coordination Meeting for COVID-19 Countermeasures at the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 issued an interim summary in December 2020 that included the following statement on overseas spectators: “The decision whether to accept overseas spectators will be made by the spring of 2021 taking into consideration the COVID-19 situation in Japan and overseas, immigration regulations in force at the time, and any prevailing restrictions on the attendance of sporting events." The five parties agreed on 3 March 2021 that a final decision would be announced by the end of March.
Currently, the COVID-19 situation in Japan and many other countries around the world is still very challenging and a number of variant strains have emerged, whilst international travel remains severely restricted globally. Based on the present situation of the pandemic, it is highly unlikely that entry into Japan will be guaranteed this summer for people from overseas. In order to give clarity to ticket holders living overseas and to enable them to adjust their travel plans at this stage, the parties on the Japanese side have come to the conclusion that they will not be able to enter into Japan at the time of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This conclusion will further contribute to ensure safe and secure Games for all participants and the Japanese public.
In line with their principle of safety first for all participants and out of respect for all the parties on the Japanese side, the IOC and IPC announced in today’s Five Parties meeting that they fully respect and accept this conclusion.
Under these circumstances, ticketholders from overseas will soon be informed of the refund mechanism.
Accredited Games participants coming to Japan this summer will continue to be required to follow the Tokyo 2020 Playbooks for their stakeholder group. A second version will be released by the end of April.
We will continue to do our utmost to deliver a safe and secure Games in the hopes that the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 will be a light of hope for people all over the world.
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Post by ToddyJ on Mar 21, 2021 3:58:48 GMT -5
Oof. Broadcasting rights are going to be hella expensive, even more than they already were. I just hope VolleyballTV gets access to the games.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2021 7:18:07 GMT -5
Oof. Broadcasting rights are going to be hella expensive, even more than they already were. I just hope VolleyballTV gets access to the games. they won’t. They’ll belong to NBC
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Post by ironhammer on Mar 21, 2021 8:15:29 GMT -5
Oof. Broadcasting rights are going to be hella expensive, even more than they already were. I just hope VolleyballTV gets access to the games. they won’t. They’ll belong to NBC ...which doesn't always do a good job broadcasting these games, if they broadcast them at all. And the commentators, I cringed on several occasions watching the matches from Rio.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2021 8:46:31 GMT -5
they won’t. They’ll belong to NBC ...which doesn't always do a good job broadcasting these games, if they broadcast them at all. And the commentators, I cringed on several occasions watching the matches from Rio. I’m pretty certain all matches were at least streamed in Rio. Using the world feed sometimes iirc
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Post by ironhammer on Mar 21, 2021 8:49:25 GMT -5
...which doesn't always do a good job broadcasting these games, if they broadcast them at all. And the commentators, I cringed on several occasions watching the matches from Rio. I’m pretty certain all matches were at least streamed in Rio. Using the world feed sometimes iirc "Feed"...haha, "broadcast" hardly do justice to the matches NBC showed at Rio.
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Post by ironhammer on Mar 25, 2021 21:16:54 GMT -5
This is the analysis of why the Tokyo Olympics is taking place by a Japanese political scientist: So why is Japan going ahead with the Olympics, against the public’s objections, while the pandemic is still a major public health concern? The answer is familiar: collusion among the elites.
Mr. Suga’s term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in September and legislative elections must be called by late October. He seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity. He inherited from Shinzo Abe last year a prime ministership tainted by numerous scandals — and has added some of his own.
Mr. Suga was Mr. Abe’s enforcer-in-chief, thanks partly to his firm grip on the media. He was the minister of internal affairs and communications during the first Abe government (2006-07) and the chief cabinet secretary and chief spokesman during the second (2012-20). During that latter stint, Japan’s ranking in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index fell from 22 to 66.
Mr. Suga is a dominant figure in this iron triangle of Japanese politics: the Liberal Democratic Party, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the media industry. And that network’s view today is that the Olympics show must go on at all cost, with or without overseas spectators.
Take Dentsu, the largest advertising and public relations company in Japan and the Tokyo 2020 Games’ exclusive marketing agency. Shun Sakurai, a former vice minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is now the company’s executive vice president and representative director. That transition — from a senior post in a ministry to a post-retirement position in a company regulated by that ministry — is called “amakudari,” descent from heaven.
Dentsu has intimate ties with the Liberal Democratic Party. According to an analysis of the party’s mandatory funding filings by the Japanese Communist Party, the L.D.P. paid $100 million to Dentsu between 2000 and 2018. Dentsu, in turn, has made lavish donations to the party’s election campaign. The company has also been embroiled in a scandal over an opaque contract to manage the distribution of a $20 billion government Covid-relief package.
Dentsu’s involvement with Japan’s Olympics are deep and deeply problematic. French prosecutors say that the Tokyo bid committee paid a former Dentsu executive more than $8 million to bribe members of the International Olympic Committee. Dentsu is also a marketing partner of the I.O.C., a possible breach of the committee’s rules about conflicts of interest.
Tokyo 2020 is the most heavily sponsored event in the Games’ history, with $3.1 billion raised from Japanese companies — thanks to Dentsu. Among the domestic sponsors are Japan’s five national newspapers: Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nikkei and Sankei. Each has its own affiliated broadcasting networks, directly or through subsidiaries. Those networks are regulated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and rely on Dentsu to sell prime-time advertising slots.
The pandemic might still derail the Tokyo Olympics. Athletes and celebrities alike have pulled out of the torch relay run over infection concerns, and some national teams could withdraw from the competition altogether. If the Games are held, however, that will be a feat of entrenched collusion among Japan’s political and media elites, and a victory for their efforts to shift public opinion in time for the next election.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opinion/olympics-japan-coronavirus.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR2-KP4jeUfULM_AxZRTqAqeMAVrNN6QI4m3ErrvGzyw6qMbKpA8KdPNTQ0
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Post by ToddyJ on Mar 26, 2021 12:35:33 GMT -5
This is the analysis of why the Tokyo Olympics is taking place by a Japanese political scientist: So why is Japan going ahead with the Olympics, against the public’s objections, while the pandemic is still a major public health concern? The answer is familiar: collusion among the elites.
Mr. Suga’s term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in September and legislative elections must be called by late October. He seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity. He inherited from Shinzo Abe last year a prime ministership tainted by numerous scandals — and has added some of his own.
Mr. Suga was Mr. Abe’s enforcer-in-chief, thanks partly to his firm grip on the media. He was the minister of internal affairs and communications during the first Abe government (2006-07) and the chief cabinet secretary and chief spokesman during the second (2012-20). During that latter stint, Japan’s ranking in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index fell from 22 to 66.
Mr. Suga is a dominant figure in this iron triangle of Japanese politics: the Liberal Democratic Party, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the media industry. And that network’s view today is that the Olympics show must go on at all cost, with or without overseas spectators.
Take Dentsu, the largest advertising and public relations company in Japan and the Tokyo 2020 Games’ exclusive marketing agency. Shun Sakurai, a former vice minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is now the company’s executive vice president and representative director. That transition — from a senior post in a ministry to a post-retirement position in a company regulated by that ministry — is called “amakudari,” descent from heaven.
Dentsu has intimate ties with the Liberal Democratic Party. According to an analysis of the party’s mandatory funding filings by the Japanese Communist Party, the L.D.P. paid $100 million to Dentsu between 2000 and 2018. Dentsu, in turn, has made lavish donations to the party’s election campaign. The company has also been embroiled in a scandal over an opaque contract to manage the distribution of a $20 billion government Covid-relief package.
Dentsu’s involvement with Japan’s Olympics are deep and deeply problematic. French prosecutors say that the Tokyo bid committee paid a former Dentsu executive more than $8 million to bribe members of the International Olympic Committee. Dentsu is also a marketing partner of the I.O.C., a possible breach of the committee’s rules about conflicts of interest.
Tokyo 2020 is the most heavily sponsored event in the Games’ history, with $3.1 billion raised from Japanese companies — thanks to Dentsu. Among the domestic sponsors are Japan’s five national newspapers: Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nikkei and Sankei. Each has its own affiliated broadcasting networks, directly or through subsidiaries. Those networks are regulated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and rely on Dentsu to sell prime-time advertising slots.
The pandemic might still derail the Tokyo Olympics. Athletes and celebrities alike have pulled out of the torch relay run over infection concerns, and some national teams could withdraw from the competition altogether. If the Games are held, however, that will be a feat of entrenched collusion among Japan’s political and media elites, and a victory for their efforts to shift public opinion in time for the next election.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opinion/olympics-japan-coronavirus.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR2-KP4jeUfULM_AxZRTqAqeMAVrNN6QI4m3ErrvGzyw6qMbKpA8KdPNTQ0The world us so full of corruption it sickens me. At this point, I'm not even sure I want the games to happen anymore. What a sh*t show.
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Post by ironhammer on Mar 26, 2021 21:04:23 GMT -5
This is the analysis of why the Tokyo Olympics is taking place by a Japanese political scientist: So why is Japan going ahead with the Olympics, against the public’s objections, while the pandemic is still a major public health concern? The answer is familiar: collusion among the elites.
Mr. Suga’s term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in September and legislative elections must be called by late October. He seems to be counting on a media blitz with feel-good effects around the Games to improve his sagging popularity. He inherited from Shinzo Abe last year a prime ministership tainted by numerous scandals — and has added some of his own.
Mr. Suga was Mr. Abe’s enforcer-in-chief, thanks partly to his firm grip on the media. He was the minister of internal affairs and communications during the first Abe government (2006-07) and the chief cabinet secretary and chief spokesman during the second (2012-20). During that latter stint, Japan’s ranking in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index fell from 22 to 66.
Mr. Suga is a dominant figure in this iron triangle of Japanese politics: the Liberal Democratic Party, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the media industry. And that network’s view today is that the Olympics show must go on at all cost, with or without overseas spectators.
Take Dentsu, the largest advertising and public relations company in Japan and the Tokyo 2020 Games’ exclusive marketing agency. Shun Sakurai, a former vice minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is now the company’s executive vice president and representative director. That transition — from a senior post in a ministry to a post-retirement position in a company regulated by that ministry — is called “amakudari,” descent from heaven.
Dentsu has intimate ties with the Liberal Democratic Party. According to an analysis of the party’s mandatory funding filings by the Japanese Communist Party, the L.D.P. paid $100 million to Dentsu between 2000 and 2018. Dentsu, in turn, has made lavish donations to the party’s election campaign. The company has also been embroiled in a scandal over an opaque contract to manage the distribution of a $20 billion government Covid-relief package.
Dentsu’s involvement with Japan’s Olympics are deep and deeply problematic. French prosecutors say that the Tokyo bid committee paid a former Dentsu executive more than $8 million to bribe members of the International Olympic Committee. Dentsu is also a marketing partner of the I.O.C., a possible breach of the committee’s rules about conflicts of interest.
Tokyo 2020 is the most heavily sponsored event in the Games’ history, with $3.1 billion raised from Japanese companies — thanks to Dentsu. Among the domestic sponsors are Japan’s five national newspapers: Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nikkei and Sankei. Each has its own affiliated broadcasting networks, directly or through subsidiaries. Those networks are regulated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and rely on Dentsu to sell prime-time advertising slots.
The pandemic might still derail the Tokyo Olympics. Athletes and celebrities alike have pulled out of the torch relay run over infection concerns, and some national teams could withdraw from the competition altogether. If the Games are held, however, that will be a feat of entrenched collusion among Japan’s political and media elites, and a victory for their efforts to shift public opinion in time for the next election.
Source: www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opinion/olympics-japan-coronavirus.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR2-KP4jeUfULM_AxZRTqAqeMAVrNN6QI4m3ErrvGzyw6qMbKpA8KdPNTQ0The world us so full of corruption it sickens me. At this point, I'm not even sure I want the games to happen anymore. What a sh*t show. When you are dealing with so much money and power, corruption and dirty dealings are par for the course. The IOC had an ugly history too with corruption, but under threat of US sanctions, they cleaned themselves up...at least to the point where their corruption is not so blatant.
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Post by Wichsen on Apr 14, 2021 15:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 15, 2021 20:10:00 GMT -5
Hmmm...what does this mean? link
A senior member of Japan’s ruling party has said that cancelling the Tokyo Olympics “remains an option” if the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen.
“If it seems impossible to do it any more, then we have to stop, decisively,” Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic party, said in a TV interview that has yet to be aired. While Nikai did not call for the Games to be called off, his comments are at odds with the united front presented by the Japanese government, Tokyo 2020 organisers and the International Olympic Committee [IOC] – all of which insist that the delayed event will open as planned on 23 July.
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 23, 2021 10:31:17 GMT -5
Tokyo declares "short" emergency: Japan declared "short and powerful" states of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefectures on Friday as the country struggles to contain a resurgent coronavirus pandemic three months before the Olympics. The government will require restaurants, bars and karaoke parlours serving alcohol to close, and big sporting events to be held without spectators from April 25 to May 11, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said. Breaching the restrictions will in some cases carry penalties, he said. "We absolutely have to limit the movement of people, and we have to do it decisively. We need powerful, short and focused measures," he said, asking people to remember the lockdowns of last spring and stay at home.
www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/japan-says-seek-short-powerful-state-emergency-tokyo-osaka-elsewhere-2021-04-22/
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Post by midnightblue on Apr 23, 2021 12:51:17 GMT -5
My confidence these games are actually going to go forward is almost non-existent. I hope Japan can manage the current surge and see their numbers fall (and ramp-up vaccine distribution). Time will tell.
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