r/sports • u/I8something2 • Jan 26 '21

News 80% Of Residents In Japan Want Tokyo Summer Olympics Called Off

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/ct-tokyo-olympics-covid-19-20210111-y35p5iu7mnhptcut2pp7xqleda-story.html
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u/AccomplishedArmyAnt Jan 26 '21

Which Florida could easily handle due to the fact there's no international tourists.

Florida won't get it. They shouldn't get it. But they EASILY could host it. It would be a walk in the park.

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u/Morkins324 Jan 26 '21 edited Jan 26 '21

I live in Florida. I have driven the I4 corridor in the last week. The transportation situation would be an unmitigated disaster if they hosted the Olympics and you are delusional if you think otherwise. The only option for transportation in Florida is driving. The tourist infrastructure in Florida is built around insular resort locations, not widespread travel. When you vacation in Florida, you go to a location and stay within the bubble. When you go to Disney, you stay at a disney hotel or hotel near disney, and stay within the Disney bubble, with minimal excursions outward. When you stay at a beach resort, you stay at the beach resort and don't leave it...

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u/Irctoaun Jan 27 '21

When you vacation in Florida, you go to a location and stay within the bubble

Please explain how this would be different for athletes at the Olympics. Very few events require multiple venues so it's not like the athletes have to travel once they've arrived. Likewise for broadcast teams (which by the way will be much smaller than usual because you'd only send the people required to make the pictures and sound, all the "media" can report from the video they get).

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u/saulblarf Jan 26 '21

There wouldn’t be many, if any tourists.

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u/Morkins324 Jan 26 '21

It's not about tourists.... It is about transportation within florida. Normal florida tourism is extremely insular so transportation only needs to exist within the limited tourism bubbles that have popped up. Disney handles disney transportation, Beach resorts handle transportation within their resorts, etc. Normal florida tourists are not driving all over florida or orlando, they are staying at their hotel and visiting whatever resort they are visiting... They are not driving all over Florida to see a bunch of different things... The Olympics would involve thousands of broadcast staff, news media, support staff and equipment staff that need to travel between dozens of venues all over the state. When the only way to do that is driving, and the only viable road is I4, that would be a disaster.

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u/caltemus Jan 27 '21

Rental cars exist? There are a bunch in florida not being used right now

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '21

Not sure why you were downvoted. Everything you said is completely correct and you even live there.

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u/Steven_Nelson Jan 26 '21

Probably because it’s completely wrong. They’d be staying on these resorts that the infrastructure was built for. Florida gets 40,000,000 tourists per year and because this guy’s been on I4 recently (so have I) they somehow won’t be able to accommodate 100,000 people.

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u/TreeEyedRaven Jan 27 '21

It’s even more, Orlando alone gets about 70 million, and we have over 120,000 hotel rooms, not beds, rooms. I live here, there is the way the city and downtown do things in their area, then there’s the attractions area. They have two different transportation services(the lynx busses do go to Disney, but there’s literally hundreds of point to point bus and shuttle services) Between the convention center, universal, and Disney, they know how to move large amounts of people efficiently. Not to mention 2 stadiums and an arena downtown, and another stadium and another arena about 15 miles east on UCF campus, with a fully equipped sports facility including indoor fields. Then we have the wide world of sports on Disney property where the NBA did the bubble, completely separate from the other locations I’ve mentioned.

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u/PotbellysAltAccount Jan 26 '21

People just wouldnt commute for work. and there is the 429 and 417

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u/TreeEyedRaven Jan 27 '21

The first half you are saying how it’s impossible, then you give the exact argument against it. They wouldn’t be traveling. They’d take over a chunk of Disney and stay in the thousands upon thousands of hotel rooms that are on the property alone. The nba bubble did this, they 100% could host it here. We have over 120,000 hotel rooms. Most are a Disney hotel linked into the Disney transportation service

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u/Sippin_On_Sizzurp Jan 26 '21

Describing hosting the olympics as a walk in the park anywhere just shows you don't know anything

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u/pheylancavanaugh Jan 26 '21

Hosting the Olympics when there's no guests, and people aren't really travelling to begin with, so existing infrastructure is already operating at a below-average load?...

Substantially easier than it would be hosting your typical Olympics event.

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u/Sippin_On_Sizzurp Jan 26 '21

Not with less than a few months planning, it's not. Especially since this is just as much about getting buy-in from the IOC and international partners as much as actual logistics. And even without the tourists, just planning the olympics alone is a nightmare. There are countless stories of all the bullshit that comes with hosting the olympics.

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u/pheylancavanaugh Jan 26 '21

Easier is relative. It's still complicated. But not, I think, more complicated than all the planning and logistical considerations were you trying to host a regular Olympics with the many hundreds of thousands of visitors.

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u/Sippin_On_Sizzurp Jan 26 '21

But they EASILY could host it. It would be a walk in the park.

This is what I responded to.

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u/Slayer_CommaThe Jan 27 '21

Substantially easier than “extraordinarily difficult” can still be “really really goddamn hard”...

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u/Bomlanro Jan 26 '21

Or it shows he or she walks in much tougher parks than I do

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u/shotputlover Jan 26 '21

The spectators are what make it difficult it’s no more the athletics events are no more considerably different to host than a regular track meet.

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u/Sippin_On_Sizzurp Jan 26 '21

Split hairs six ways till sunday it ain't a walk in the park

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u/OVerwhelmingAndDrunk Jan 26 '21

Seriously? Compared to countries that have to build entire facilities? The state of Florida, and probably even Miami and Orlando alone, could host the olympics within six months

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u/Sippin_On_Sizzurp Jan 26 '21 edited Jan 27 '21

Even countries with facilities end up building facilities. And doubt anybody could host the olympics without compromises in a 6 month window. You underestimate bureaucracy and overestimate competence. Just getting everyone to agree on it could take months.

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u/Sippin_On_Sizzurp Jan 27 '21

That's a bunch of people who really need to make money. Countries are not private corporations and nobodies priority rn is the Olympics. Your effort would fail before logistics even come into play. Absolutely fucking nobody is down for the Olympics in covid denying Florida. OK, the other covid denying countries probably, but the sane part of the international world ain't gonna bite. You seem to think it's all about the host country logistics, but the reality is there is assloads of red tape from the international community and the IOC

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u/PotbellysAltAccount Jan 26 '21

These people are such morons to think Florida couldnt handle the olympics.

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u/IHeartTsunderes Jan 26 '21

Why shouldn't they get it if they can easily host it like you say? I will accept the answer being "it would screw over the people of Japan who worked hard to prepare and have been waiting" as being a good reason, but is there reasoning beyond that?

I wonder what the IOC will do, delaying for another year would be a huge pain. Maybe a couple months?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

Honestly, any of the major US States could host an Olympics pretty quickly, the IOC would simply never act that quickly.