Canceling the Tokyo Olympics next year? … Area of ​​influence of the 2022 Winter Olympics-Chosun.com

The ‘Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games’ have been postponed for a year, but there is still anxiety. This is because there is no guarantee that the crown event will end until next summer. Although it shows signs of sedation in Europe, there are between 60,000 and 70,000 people infected every day worldwide. Among these, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned the possibility of cancellation for the first time.

Prime Minister Abe said on the 29th, “I think the Olympic Games cannot be held in its entirety in a situation where the Corona fandemic is not suppressed.” He responded to a question from Congress Democratic Party leader Baek Jin-hun: “The Prime Minister proposed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to extend the (Olympic) year.” Abe said: “Now, we have to prepare for a long-term war. We have to hold a contest as evidence that humans have conquered the coronavirus, but without it, the Olympics are difficult.” The day before, Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, said: “We will never postpone the Olympics again in 2022. If Corona does not end until next summer, we will cancel the competition.” The Organizing Committee of the Tokyo Olympic Games does not rule out the possibility of cancellation.

Above all, the fact that the crown is being extended in Japan fuels the pessimism of the Olympic Games. In Japan, hundreds of confirmers increase every day. There was also a training case among employees of the Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committees, who have been working at home for approximately 90%. It is not easy to restore the stadium and other facilities for the Olympic Games. Medical experts also see the odds that the Olympics will be held normally. President Yoshitake Yokokura of the Japanese Medical Association said on Jan. 28: “If an effective corona vaccine is not developed, it will be very difficult even if the Olympics are not impossible.”

The cost of postponing competition for a year is estimated at 300 billion yen (approximately 3.43 billion won) to 600 billion yen (approximately 6.8686 billion won). Additional IOC funds are expected to reach hundreds of billions of won, but in Japan, in exchange for delaying the Olympics by one year, you need to risk not being able to compete normally with even more trillions of won. In Japan, there are even voices that say, “Rather, we should be spending more money on preventing the crown.”

If the conditions are not met for the corona vaccine to be completed by the summer of next year and distributed to all countries, the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (July 23-Aug 8, 2021) and the Olympics Winter in Beijing in February 2022 Until surrender becomes inevitable. The world could face the ‘darkness of sport’ without the Olympics for years to come.