The suggestion varies between headstrong and laudable. In view of the threatened cancellation of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee received an offer from Florida to light the fire there. They can do top-class sport in the US state in the pandemic. There was the basketball play-offs there, then there will be the footballers’ Super Bowl in Tampa, all easy under the Florida sun? To be honest: Nope.
The pendulum is swinging towards egoism. The Olympic Games are a different freak than a little Super Bowl. At the Olympics you have to do with people from all over the world for weeks. And then let’s take a look at the book of the saddest records of the last 24 months: In the Covid crisis, the USA occupies the foremost place. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 420,000 people have died there with the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen. That is more than in any other country in the world.
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So why should the youth of the world meet in the USA, which was infected by Donald Trump until recently? Joseph Biden can’t tidy up that quickly and he certainly has other worries than the summer games. Then prefer Olympia on the moon is safer.
But the IOC and the Japanese government are still sticking to their plans for Tokyo. A tip: Tokyo is still first choice, then comes the moon and then Florida.
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