There’s less than a week to go until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, an event which 80% of Japanese people don’t want. With 11,000 athletes and another seven or eight times that number of coaches, support staff and media workers converging on Japan, it is increasingly obvious that staging this potential super-spreader event is a bad idea. The IOC president, Thomas Bach, has claimed, with the optimism of the damned, that “the risk for the other residents of the Olympic village and the risk for the Japanese people is zero”. Yet, even before a flame has been lit, a starting gun fired or a medal presented, the first positive Covid-19 test has been recorded by a foreign visitor in the Olympic village.
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