The essence of the Olympics is to celebrate humanity through sports, so what is the point holding the Olympics when humanity cannot celebrate themselves, rejoicing, backslapping one another and mixing and mingling freely. The Tokyo Olympics is so weird and generally not Olympics like that some of the rules of engagement or rather non engagement mirrors an Olympics that is steadily looking like a sterilization camp rather than a gathering of the world's best athletes using sports to celebrate world's people. It is so bad that not even medals will be hung on the athletes by Olympics officials; rather they will pick the medals up themselves and then do with it whatever they please.
Even Olympics condoms which are being distributed among the athletes are specifically "marked" to be used only when the Olympics games end and possibly in their own respective countries but definitely not in Tokyo. Then add the cardboard sleeping beds for the athletes which is to ensure any extra weight on it will lead to its collapse; and you wonder why persons bent on making out cannot simply lay sheets on the floor and get on with their thing, since sex is not bed exclusive. Then there is the fleeting seconds allowed for chatting up fellow athletes and the food which must be chowed down in seconds as well. There is also the empty stadiums and arenas where athletes will perform without spectators or fans cheering them on.
They literary took the Olympics out of the event and it is not a case of where one half loaf is better than none; no, there is no loaf at all in this case as the supposed half loaf is biscuit and not bread. So, why still proceed with the Olympics if it must be held in such an austere and sterile condition; and not defer it to such a future time when it can be held the proper and right way which Olympics are know for.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics was supposed to have held last summer 2020 but never did because of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus is still with us in 2021, so why hold it now? If it was postponed once, why not postponed it again and until when society is freed of the coronavirus scourge, however long that might be. Japan would have been given the right of first refusal to host it before it moves to any other host country. Such an outcome would have been much better than holding an Olympics which is a mere shadow or rather a ghostly apparition of a typical Olympics. A Tokyo Olympics with no fans, no tourists, no spectators, no fun and no world's peoples from every part of the globe singing kumbaya in celebration of one another in peace, harmony and joyfulness is not an Olympics in the strict sense of it.
But the show must go on as fat cats are eager to recover as much money as they possibly can from an investment which is already looking every inch bankrupt. The Tokyo Olympics is going to end up in near total complete loss for host country Japan, its National Olympics Organizing Committee as well as the International Olympics Committee. So, all these factors considered, why then still proceed with it as no prudent mind will make such a decision unless there is something which they have not disclosed yet that shows the merits outweigh the demerits of proceeding with the Olympics under the circumstances.
ICHEOKU says the Tokyo Olympics was marred even before it started in cost overruns, many scandals including the president Yoshiro Mori being forced out because of political correctness wokeness due to a statement that "talkative women tends to make meetings last too long." Then the president of International Olympics Committee Thomas Bach called Japanese people Chinese and dismissed such an egregious misconstruction without apologizing in Japanese; unlike John Cena who profusely apologized to China in Cantonese for mistakenly referring to Taiwan as an independent country. There was also the scandal with the music director and the comment about Nazi and of course Sha'Carri Richardson's was banned for inhaling marijuana which Kamala Harris also did, but which Bill Clinton only puffed on it but did not inhale.
Anyway, fireworks does not make an Olympics; it is the interactions and records that are broken as well as other interplays among the athletes such as the one for which condoms are freely supplied. It also includes other extracurricular activities and the many pictures and videos taken with newly made friends and places traveled and explored outside the Olympics village quarantine zone. It also includes the food, drinks, parties and cultural experiences shared and taken in, none of which will be part of the Tokyo 2020 experience. So, what manner of Olympics will it be anyway without all the pomp and pageantry usually associated with Olympics games. Many people are tuned off and not watching as they have more life challenging issues in this days of COVID-19 and other overwhelming natural disasters plaguing the world.
ICHEOKU is watching only the USWNT to see what happens next after their abysmal performance against Sweden. Hopefully they will extend the watching time or son of man will be signing off with their exit from Tokyo. The other person who would have deserved time spent on the couch is unfortunately not participating in the Olympics because of a foolish decision against inhaling marijuana which will cost the United States of America an Olympic gold medal in the women 100 meters race. Sha'Carri Robinson should not have been banned for inhaling marijuana smoke and if it was because of the rule and the rule is the rule, the rule should have been waived for her as the rule was waived for two Defense Secretaries, the present and another one in the past. But hey, the games have begun and may the medals count reward those countries who are better than the others.
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