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The coronavirus nightmare continues in Japan: daily total of #COVID19 cases topped 10,000 for the 1st time on Thursday. Nationwide tally of 10,693 cases included 3,865 in Tokyo, which logged a record for 3rd straight day. Image by @BrookesTimes HT @yoksig english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/07/1…
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"#Tokyo2020 created discrimination & violence far beyond imagination. Terrible human rights violations & the destruction of democracy were structurally brought about by the #Olympics. Our struggle marks the beginning of the end of the Olympic Games"-@ikeitani
#五輪やめて命まもれ twitter.com/kojiskojis/sta…
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❓Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, claims, "Anti-Japanese people strongly oppose hosting the Olympics." Specifically, he cited the Communist Party & the Asahi Shimbun newspaper❓ #Tokyo2020 安倍前首相「反日的な人が五輪開催に強く反対」 mainichi.jp/articles/20210…
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At anti-Olympics direct action attempting to deliver petition to cancel the Olympics to the 5-star Hotel Okura where the International Olympic Committee is staying, the police stopped them & forcibly dragged the protester into the park🎥 @galbraithian999
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#Tokyo2020 volunteers in line to get first dose of vaccine before Olympics (but not the second). Olympics Minister: "First round of vaccinations will provide temporary immunity" for volunteers, and "the Games were not designed on the premise of vaccination in the first place" twitter.com/sportsnavi/sta…
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"The Olympics are broken. Nowhere is this clearer than in Tokyo, where more than 80% oppose the upcoming Summer Games... Even without a pandemic, the impact of the Olympics on host cities has become too devastating to ignore."
-@emburack🔥@TeenVogue teenvogue.com/story/olympics…
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I spoke w/ @rosemaryCNN about the cascade of calamities in Japan as we approach the #Tokyo2020 Olympics. More than 80% in Japan oppose the Games. Medical workers are in open rebellion, demanding cancellation. Yet, because of💰, Olympic organizers insist the Games must go on. @CNN
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Right now in Portland, people are gathered outside the stadium where the Portland Thorns & Timbers play, standing up in collective support of #NWSL players. Event organized by @PDXRivetersSG #BAONPDX [📸 posted w/ permission]
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My latest w/ @EdgeofSports @thenation: in Tokyo—& wider Japan—we’re witnessing the nightmare scenario that so many public health experts predicted: surging #COVID19 rates & hospitals on the brink. #Tokyo2020 inflicts stress on hosts in Japan & athletes too
thenation.com/article/societ…
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Japan discloses more #COVID19 cases among #Tokyo2020 Olympics arrivals (beyond 2 members of Ugandan delegation): a French national, an Egyptian, a Sri Lankan, & a Ghanaian all tested positive. The public was not informed of the positive tests at the time upi.com/7107506t
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Congrats to Christian Pulisic, the 1st USAmerican *male* to play in a #UCLFinal
He follows in the footsteps of 9 US women: Venus James, Ali Krieger, Gina Lewandowski, Megan Rapinoe, Meghan Klingenberg, Christen Press, Whitney Engen, & Alex Morgan
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@hangorinnokai Incredible hubris. @inosenaoki signed the lopsided #Tokyo2020 host city contract, handing so much power to the International Olympic Committee & making Japanese taxpayers responsible for cost overruns. Now he says those who oppose the Games will change their minds once they begin
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"Many medical experts here do not think they are prepared [for #Tokyo2020]. You even have Japan's government advisors warning that the Olympics could lead to an explosion of cases here in Japan & push the medical system here past its brink."
-@selinawangtv
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I spoke with @tbs_houtoku about how #Tokyo2020 Olympians must sign a waiver releasing Olympic organizers from liability in the case of death by #COVID19. Responsibility is placed directly on the shoulders of athletes. In conversation w/ Mr. Kanehira of @tbs_pr
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My latest for @latimes: The #Tokyo2020 Games have been a cascade of calamities. The saga has exposed an IOC that disrespects the will of locals, brushes off inconvenient concerns of experts, & prioritizes its profits over all else. LA, are you watching? latimes.com/opinion/story/…
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If medical experts determine that it is too dangerous to hold the #Tokyo2020 Olympics, then the Games should be canceled. Public health should be more important than hosting an optional sporting spectacle. It's definitely not too late to cancel #Tokyo2020 english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/06/5…
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An online petition in Japan called "Stop Tokyo Olympics" secured more than 350,000 signatures. Lawyer @utsunomiyakenji, who started the campaign, submitted it to the #Tokyo2020 Organizing Committee & IOC today. By @StephenWadeAP & @yurikageyama apnews.com/article/tokyo-…
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🧵by anti-Olympics activists in Tokyo who successfully pushed back against the false narrative, put forth by Japan's public broadcaster NHK, that a man was paid to protest the #Tokyo2020 Olympics. NHK eventually admitted it was wrong & apologized. HT @X2nkzLeITuaFpE4 @SayNoToLDP twitter.com/hangorinnokai/…
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@knakano1970 @THR “If there are tens of thousands of people coming into Japan from all over the world, nothing like 100% safety & security will be possible in a broad sense. It is very likely that a new variant could be introduced & then spread.”
-Dr. @georgebest1969 hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…
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Here is footage of the moment when an anti-Olympics protester in Japan squirted water at the #OlympicTorchRelay to symbolically snuff out the #Tokyo2020 Olympic torch. Police swarmed her & she was detained. Ibaraka Prefecture. HT @emi_onuma1_16 twitter.com/parieruchan/st…
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I spoke w/ @AlJazeera on the eve of the #Tokyo2020 opening ceremony about how these Games are so singular, how the IOC president told athletes there was “zero” risk they’d pass along #COVID19 to each other or people outside the Olympic bubble, & how this adds stress for athletes
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I talked about the cascade of calamities besetting the #Tokyo2020 Olympics at the moment, where an Olympics-induced state of exception is clashing with a pandemic-induced state of emergency, extended through 20 June. In conversation w/ @ToddCTV of @CTVNews ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2…
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More anti-Olympics art to commemorate #NOlympicDay, this powerful piece by @japanbluelegend
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🔥"The Games are less a sporting event than they are a scheme to transfer public wealth to private coffers―a budget-busting monstrosity that diverts billions of💰in public money away from actual public needs."
-@Travis_Waldron @HuffPostSports on #Tokyo2020
huffpost.com/entry/tokyo-ol…
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Here is video of protester shouting "You're a liar!" at International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach during an Olympic event in Tokyo
Bach responds, "Sorry, I cannot understand you. If you have something to say, write to me." 📹 @hangorinnokai
Political scientist. Author of NOlympians (@Fernpub) & Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (@VersoBooks). Poetry lover.