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Poll: Will the 2020 Olympics ever happen?

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Happens? Or never does?

  • The 2020 Olympics will happen starting as scheduled with opening ceremony Friday, July 23

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • The 2020 Olympics will happen, but will be delayed again from current schedule

    Votes: 4 18.2%

  • The 2020 Olympics will be scrubbed

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • The 2020 Olympics will start on time but be prematurely terminated due to uncontrolled virus spread

    Votes: 1 4.5%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
dank69 said:
Why are they still calling it the 2020 Olympics? It's 2021...
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The eurocup that just finished was the 2020 eurocup

Also branding and merchandise, all the trademarks, websites, advertising, etc is all already using Tokyo2020, you're not gonna change that now it's just gonna waste even MORE money.
 
mnewsham said:
The eurocup that just finished was the 2020 eurocup

Also branding and merchandise, all the trademarks, websites, advertising, etc is all already using Tokyo2020, you're not gonna change that now it's just gonna waste even MORE money.
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I understand this logic (to some extent) but I do not like it. I prefer accuracy. All future references to these events will now often require additional footnotes and caveats that they occurred in 2021.
 
dank69 said:
Why are they still calling it the 2020 Olympics? It's 2021...
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Same reason they're still calling Covid-19 Covid-19, even though the Delta variant started this year.
dank69 said:
I understand this logic (to some extent) but I do not like it. I prefer accuracy. All future references to these events will now often require additional footnotes and caveats that they occurred in 2021.
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Life gets messy sometimes. It's 2021 but the event was designated (and originally scheduled) 2020, it's only the scheduling that got delayed.
 
Muse said:
Well, they could call the Delta variant Covid-21 if they wanted to.
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COVID-19 is the name of the illness, first discovered in 2019. SARS-COV-2 is the name of the virus, and the Delta variant is one of many variants of SARS-COV-2.
 
Well, I just came down from the fence and voted: Opening ceremonies one week from today, July 23rd.
 
mikeymikec said:
Who wants to go back to 2020, I mean, honestly?
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Right on, bro! I've never been into nostalgia. 😀

I've heard a lot of people say how awful 2020 was. It wasn't so bad for me, but honestly, I think 2020 was even for me something to get over. I'm working on it. Vaccinations in my arm have helped a lot, I don't understand how Americans can hesitate. They are stupid.

Edit: I don't want to go back to 2019 either.
 
Keep the quarantine and just let everyone in the "bubble" get it. If you can't stop it, just let it finish sooner and without letting it leave to new people out of the bubble.

Doubt any athletes will die but the greater concern is it jumping to the general population.
 
Yeah I think it's inevitable that there will be more cases, so just make sure everyone involved stays in the bubble. (media, coaches, officials etc).

Basically it's like being gone on vacation for 2 weeks where you don't see your family, so I don't see it being too big of an issue to do a bubble.

What they should have done is have everyone quarantine before entering the village. So you fly there and all that, and then go into a designated hotel that is near the village and then after 2 weeks you can enter. Offer testing at the hotel as well, so you can get tested and once you're negative you can go to the village right away.
 
Can't see that this is going to help the performance of the 6 athletes affected.


www.theguardian.com

Six Team GB athletes forced to isolate after Covid scare before Olympics

Six athletes and two members of staff from Team GB have been forced to self-isolate in the Olympic Village after close Covid contact on the flight to Tokyo
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Team GB’s preparations for the Olympics have been plunged into chaos after six athletes and two staff members from the athletics squad were forced to self-isolate after coming into close contact with a member of the public who had Covid-19 on their flight to Tokyo.

The news, which broke late on Sunday afternoon in Yokohama after the athletes had finished training for the day, stunned officials who immediately rushed to ensure that the athletes and staff members were confined to their rooms.
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The whole endevour seems like just more evidence that 'sport' is entirely about money.
That IOC president who insists it's all perfectly safe appears to be cut from the same cloth as the mayor of Amity Island in Jaws.
 
Instead of a medal count, perhaps we should do a COVID case count by nation this year. The US will probably "win" that dubious distinction, as we tend to suck at following quarantine guidelines.
 
It's going to happen and it's going to complete with whatever hopscotching that is necessary. We've already seen it here with NBA / NHL championships awarded, etc. Everyone not affected will continue to compete and a winner is decided. Olympians have more to fight for since time is not on their side. If you think it's just about money, it's much more than that for the athletes themselves.

pmv said:
Can't see that this is going to help the performance of the 6 athletes affected.
www.theguardian.com

Six Team GB athletes forced to isolate after Covid scare before Olympics

Six athletes and two members of staff from Team GB have been forced to self-isolate in the Olympic Village after close Covid contact on the flight to Tokyo
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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They caught it on the plane over there, even with mask restrictions? They feed people on the plane and people remove their masks right? It's just comical...

Were the athletes vaccinated? I'd like to know the details about the masks too.
 
rh71 said:
It's going to happen and it's going to complete with whatever hopscotching that is necessary. We've already seen it here with NBA / NHL championships awarded, etc. Everyone not affected will continue to compete and a winner is decided. Olympians have more to fight for since time is not on their side. If you think it's just about money, it's much more than that for the athletes themselves.



They caught it on the plane over there, even with mask restrictions? They feed people on the plane and people remove their masks right? It's just comical...

Were the athletes vaccinated? I'd like to know the details about the masks too.
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COVID's ability to spread and reach the nose should be treated as cig smoke or the scent of WD-40 as it comes out of a can. You don't need much viral load or exposure time at all to get it.

I masked up, am a natural introvert, only went to stores sparingly, and still got it this year.

Furthermore, I was not overtly symptomatic until after it departed. Then the coughing came. But my period of contagiousness and active infection was before the coughing period. People who are vaccinated don't normally get tested because they have been assured they're going to be ok. But even among the unvaccinated, people may not really notice it and just chalk up to a bad day, missed sleep, etc, and they pass up getting tested.
 
Torn Mind said:
COVID's ability to spread and reach the nose should be treated as cig smoke or the scent of WD-40 as it comes out of a can. You don't need much viral load or exposure time at all to get it.

I masked up, am a natural introvert, only went to stores sparingly, and still got it this year.
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There's 2 parts to masking. If others masked, the viral load coming out from them toward you wouldn't be as prominent either.

I can blow through my mask and can't feel anything come out on the other side (like the candle test).
 
rh71 said:
There's 2 parts to masking. If others masked, the viral load coming out toward you wouldn't be as prominent either.
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I never talked with any strangers, and I used self-checkout so I definitely social distanced. I went to Home Depot and Walmart once each during the week prior to testing positive on Feb 13, so masking is mandatory in those stores. Plus, since the lockdown was in place, it's not like normal numbers of people were flooding the stores.

That Delta is many times more contagious than the original is awestriking to me.

Furthermore, my frequent social contacts around that time were 2 other people, and mostly one. My mother mostly, and my sister around Jan 30. My mom did not get it as she tested negative.
 
dank69 said:
I understand this logic (to some extent) but I do not like it. I prefer accuracy. All future references to these events will now often require additional footnotes and caveats that they occurred in 2021.
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It's going to be a future game-show/pub-quiz question isn't it? Just wait a century or so till a generation of quiz-contestants has forgotten what happened.

"What year were the 2020 Olympics?"

or (to cunningly disguise the trick nature of the question as a maths question)

"How many days has it been since the 2020 Olympics ended?"
 
Torn Mind said:
I never talked with any strangers, and I used self-checkout so I definitely social distanced. I went to Home Depot and Walmart once each during the week prior to testing positive on Feb 13, so masking is mandatory in those stores. Plus, since the lockdown was in place, it's not like normal numbers of people were flooding the stores.

That Delta is many times more contagious than the original is awestriking to me.

Furthermore, my frequent social contacts around that time were 2 other people, and mostly one. My mother mostly, and my sister around Jan 30. My mom did not get it as she tested negative.
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I'm not saying it definitely happened but there's a lot of things that could've contributed. Infected surfaces anywhere along the way - you may have used sanitizer, only to then touch the bottle again afterward. Anything could've happened. Masks and everything else are only deterrents. I'm ultimately just curious about the circumstances that led to people getting infected.

The other week I was worried my kid may have gotten myocarditis from the vaccine (multiple instances of shortness of breath), which has been big news in the last month. The soccer player who collapsed suddenly had a heart/lung(?) episode too. I was curious about his vaccination circumstances then, which still isn't clear...
 
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