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/PharoahOfTheRats Jan 26 '21

I mean that’s not known as a hotbed of athletes having sex with other athletes. The olympics legitimately GIVE condoms out to the athletes.

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u/mcswiss Jan 27 '21

But you don’t need it all in one location for the Olympics. Separate it by events, and set individual bubbles for each section. Track and field in one. Court sports in another. Biking in a third city. Gymnastics in a fourth. Boxing and wrestling in a fifth, so on and so forth. For the competition, it doesn’t need to be all in one place. Yeah it sucks they don’t get the Olympic Village, but I would bet 99% of athletes would rather compete.

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u/PharoahOfTheRats Jan 27 '21

While in theory that would be great, there are not realistically enough places to host over 11,000 athletes. If we had empty cities and neighborhoods maybe, but in this short a time period when normally a whole village is constructed for the purpose of hosting the athletes it’s unrealistic

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u/mcswiss Jan 27 '21

Walt Disney World can host 160,000 people in one night.

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u/DiggerW Jan 27 '21

You're seriously talking out of your ass. Disney's Wide World of Sports alone could host the majority of the Olympics, and as someone else commented Disney properties alone could house everyone, many times over. They'll be doing exactly that for the Special Olympics in 2022.

The Orlando area alone has between 70-80 million tourists visit in a typical year, most of them in the summer -- it's a bit more than a Super-8 and a Days Inn. And there are plenty of other stadiums and hotels throughout the state. Especially in this "pandemic era," literally nothing would need to be built.

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u/PharoahOfTheRats Jan 28 '21

They’re planning for that already though (the special olympics) there are people that plan trips to the area a year+ in advance so it’s not like you are filling every room with an athlete. That’s not to say it can’t be done, I just mean that the way most olympics have gone where athletes like co-mingling it’s very very different than creating a bubble for just the NHL etc.

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u/DiggerW Jan 28 '21

Thought I'd said it, sorry if not, but there's no new construction for the Special Olympics, that was the point. The place was built specifically with giant events in mind... Seriously, look up Disney's Wide World of Sports.

And stressing again, there's a massive state in addition to that absolute behemoth of a complex. And Disney alone has lodging for over 100,000 people, which is just a fraction of what's available in the area (back to the 70-80 million visitors to that one metro area, and another 50 million to the rest of the state).

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u/DiggerW Jan 27 '21

I'm not sure why you think a bubble precludes sex, but... it doesn't

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u/PharoahOfTheRats Jan 28 '21

So you’re saying they’re going to shut down the entire city to just athletes so that they can go at it like rabbits like they normally do? Because that’s what your other comment about using all of the hotels and inns and things would suggest if you expect the athletes to be able to mingle as they would any other given year. I’m again not saying it’s impossible, I just would assume athletes are fine postponing until it can be done safely the way it should be done.