Olympics will ban spectators after Japan declares state of emergency

[enhanced_deficit]

Spectatorless olympics next:

Olympics will ban spectators after Japan declares state of emergency


Thu, Jul 8 2021
Key Points

• Olympics organizers will ban spectators from the games in Tokyo, after Japan declared a state of emergency amid rising Covid-19 cases in the country.
• The decision presents a new challenge for the games, which were already delayed a year due to the pandemic.

Olympics organizers are banning all spectators from the games this year after Japan declared a state of emergency that’s meant to curb a wave of new Covid-19 infections.

It’s the latest setback for the Summer Olympics that have already been delayed for a year and racked up high costs for postponement. The state of emergency will begin Monday and run through Aug. 22, while the games are scheduled from July 23 to Aug. 8.
Organizers had already banned international spectators from attending and set a cap on domestic crowds at 50% of capacity, or up to 10,000 people.
There’s immense pressure to curb the spread of the virus at the games, protecting both athletes and neighboring regions. More than 11,000 competitors are expected to travel to Japan to compete, along with thousands of officials and staff also set to attend.

Nationwide, Japan has reported about 811,000 coronavirus cases and more than 14,800 deaths, according to data from the World Health Organization. However, the nation has faced a relatively slow rollout of vaccines. Only about a quarter of the population has had at least one COVID-19 shot, according to Reuters.

Adjusting to no fans

NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC, plans to show more than 7,000 hours of content from the Tokyo Olympics across its networks and streaming platforms. Now NBC will have to grapple with whether viewers notice the difference without spectators.

Sports properties around the world adjusted during the pandemic with no fans, and often used digital seats to display some form of attendance. U.S. pro leagues including the National Football League and Major League Baseball also incorporated artificial sound in broadcasts to mimic crowd noise.

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It’s challenging to keep viewers engaged in sports broadcasts without spectators, so NBC could use the technology to enhance production. In 2014, the media giant and the International Olympic Committee agreed to a $7.75 billion media rights deal to extend their partnership. The current agreement runs through 2032.
cnbc.com/2021/07/08/japan-olympics-committee-bans-spectators-following-state-of-emergency.html

 

[belian78]

All the marketing, all the propaganda, all the merchandising... No plebs to fuck it all up. Ah, the Great Reset, aint she grand????

 

[Danke]

Fake Plandemic.

 

[belian78]

What I'm interested in knowing is how all the left over fallout from the nuclear plant implosion is just all gone and squeaky clean? Activists have been screaming for years that the runoff is still still spilling into the ocean, and that the ground/air is permeated with nuclear fallout. We're just going to send high end athletes to an area of the world that may kill them with cancer and who knows what else.

 

[pcosmar]

What I'm interested in knowing is how all the left over fallout from the nuclear plant implosion is just all gone and squeaky clean? Activists have been screaming for years that the runoff is still still spilling into the ocean, and that the ground/air is permeated with nuclear fallout. We're just going to send high end athletes to an area of the world that may kill them with cancer and who knows what else.

Shh,, everything causes cancer except Radiation..

What were the cancer rates of the 1920s? (unknown or non-existent)

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Fake Plandemic.

But impacting real airlines investors...although sometimes Wall Street is called non-real too.


Dow sinks nearly 800 points as Delta variant fears hit Wall Street hard

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business
Updated 11:28 AM ET, Mon July 19, 2021

New York (CNN Business)Investors are getting spooked by the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant spreads across the globe.

The Dow fell nearly 800 points late Monday morning, a drop of 2.2%. The S&P 500 fell 1.5% and the Nasdaq was 1% lower.
This is shaping up to be the worst day for the Dow since a 943-point drop in late October.
Investors feared that the Delta coronavirus variant could threaten the US economic recovery. Shares of companies in sectors that were widely thought to benefit most from the reopening of the economy are getting hit the hardest.

Airlines American (AAL), United (UAL) and Delta (DAL) were all down more than 4%. Cruise operators Carnival (CCL), Royal Caribbean (RCL) and Norwegian (NCLH) each fell about 5%.
cnn.com/2021/07/19/investing/dow-stock-market-today/index.html


Paranoia has spread to Drudge Report also:

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[cjm]

What I'm interested in knowing is how all the left over fallout from the nuclear plant implosion is just all gone and squeaky clean? Activists have been screaming for years that the runoff is still still spilling into the ocean, and that the ground/air is permeated with nuclear fallout. We're just going to send high end athletes to an area of the world that may kill them with cancer and who knows what else.

The athletes are going to a bunker in Okinawa to watch Capricorn One while "hand through the microphone" CGI versions will "compete" like the dot racing at a baseball game.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

They should just do virtual olympics.

 

[belian78]

The athletes are going to a bunker in Okinawa to watch Capricorn One while "hand through the microphone" CGI versions will "compete" like the dot racing at a baseball game.

I gather you're trying to have a bit of fun at my expense, I just don't know why. What about what I said in any way deserves that kind of sarcastic response? Do you not think the fallout is an issue then?

 

[cjm]

I gather you're trying to have a bit of fun at my expense

Not at all. You raise a valid point about the fallout. I certainly wouldn’t be going there as fan or athlete. I was attempting to use your comment as a launch pad to vent some snark about the high ludicrocity level of this entire story (and the cgi Biden clips).

Apologies for any misunderstanding.

 

[oyarde]

Not a real Olympics then , may as well cancel it , but probably shouldnt be holding olympics in the orient anyway , birthplace of pandemics .