iRozhlai If Covid was the only problem of the Olympics without spectators, it would still be good

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Thomas Kulidakis: If Covid was the only problem of the Olympics without spectators, it would still be good

But the International Olympic Committee gives, just as it takes.He did not choose to postpone further, so Japan had to arrange for the event without spectators.However, there is a lower yield of a prestigious action without viewers, whose costs have increased at least four times compared to the assumptions.The only reassuring in this case is that inflating budgets is obviously not the privilege of only some countries but of all.

The absence of viewers caused by the fact that unlike the UK, Japan has not taken the way away from the strategy of zero transmission, is the second thing that beats the eyes.Together with the masks that athletes have to wear, ad absurdum, because at a sports ground where they are close, perhaps at the end of swimming, they can talk close to as they want.

Bans and confusion

In addition to the earnings that the Japanese organizers of the absence of viewers, the whole world also sees the absurdity of part of the coronavirus bans and orders.Especially when someone marches with a respirator, while another with a simple mask, leaking everywhere, which is definitely not a functioning protection.About parts of athletes who follow the rules more than lax.

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The fact that top athletes have to put medals on the neck themselves is already a tragic spectacle.Yet everything is enforced.The absurdity of the efforts to reduce contacts can be attributed to the distribution of condoms that have found at least use in the repair of the Australian gold medalist.

Overall, it can be seen that the Japanese did not want much to the organization and complaints from the place just confirm it.Poorly functioning, unbearable conditions of quarantine rooms, tennis players playing in stunning heat, giving quarantines to demonstrate finding, not symptoms.

After all, we know about our tests in our country.After all, how many people wanted to slowly publicly lynch the doctor Voráček without being able to logically decipher that Voráček simply came to the first, which did not mean that the first infected and transferred the virus to others.Let's add debates about the sensitivity of the tests in our country and in Japan and the cake of dog and cat is ready with its traditional gravity.

Guilt

In addition to these problems, there is also what the Olympic act should not belong to, namely politics.Or a constant struggle for who dope, who does not denounce, who plays purely and who does not.

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The Russian media is extensively devoted to alleged evidence of collective guilt, because athletes sent by Russia must compete with the Olympic symbol and listen to Tchaikovsky instead of the anthem instead of the anthem.Some of them taste unsportsmanlike on the grave and emphasize that even so, the Russian expedition was allowed more than it had in the light of the state of sponsored doping.

They also do athletes themselves, for example, American rowers, which, although not much showed, but complained that silver Russian rowers would not be silver because they should not be at all at all.

Who has ever been sports knows that even those who have never denied - or at the time they were too young years ago - not only at the Olympics would not only be cruel, but also harm the sporting experience of the audience and the performance of the athletes themselves.So the Russian media mentioned that the top American gymnast awarded with medals from the last games in Rio, Brazil had a positive finding of psychoactive substances, but has been shown to be a medical certificate of psychological problems.This time, however, the top athlete gave up.

Overall, this year's experience is terrible and hopefully, although the doping war will probably not end, Covidal games marked by the organizers are the last.I have written to doping before that Russia, not innocent athletes according to the law of collective guilt.Indeed, in the first five countries in terms of doping affairs are missing China, India and the United States of America.

The author is a Czech Radio commentator

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