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There’s that plus all the qualifying events globally that have to take place between now and then...

Wouldn’t not canceling it when they should have be a better example of them not being able to handle the situation?

Athletes are one thing.

The international flocking of people to one already overcrowded location is another.

Japanese Gov’t seems yet to decide whether to go cannonball or call it off entirely, currently bit on cannonball side which is how this deadline story came up.

If cancelled, this’ll be the second time an Olympic Games in Tokyo is cancelled, that I personally find hilarious, but a lot will be fuming embarrassed, especially if historians later likely is to mark it an uneducated overreaction.