Originally Posted by
hailstorm
How do you know those tickets will even still exist? There are probably Japanese in Japan with tickets that ultimately will be told that they cannot attend.
Did they publish how many tickets were allocated to JP vs foreign? Can the venues safely operate by JP standards with social distancing?
I just read skating twitter for Worlds 2021 in Stockholm which was a qualifier for Beijing 2022. It did seem to them that there were a lot of things which could have been done better regarding COVID prevention protocols (or not done at all because well, pandemic) and a few YT videos of certain skaters showed the stands mostly empty. It might have just been fellow skaters watching but I don't see why they chose to sit in clusters when given an entire upper stadium to space themselves out?
https:// youtu.be/DYowoG0I6Ng?t=238
See 3:58
For the record, three people tested positive https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1105929/isu-positive-test-covid-figure-skating and the bubble seemed a bit loose. No quarantine and
events which fans brought up . After people tested positive they still decided to have the gala skate which is a performance round (non-qualifying). They did withdraw the couple which tested positive from competing & they stayed in their room(s), though I'm not sure if they were kept in quarantine afterwards.
Hoping Tokyo 2020 and the IOC are doing remote training to make the protocols very clear to all visiting nations and zero tolerance with significant actual consequences. Tokyo 2020 won't be requiring foreign athletes to quarantine as of Feb 2021
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/qua...okyo-olympics/ It is a very diverse group of nations attending with different protocols, infection rates, and social adherence to rules.
I wonder how Tokyo's opening and closing ceremonies are being re-worked including the typical performances and if they'll make PCR tests readily available to Olympic staff, performers, JP athletes, and volunteers for a few weeks after the games.