Are the Olympics continuing so that those that attend can be infected with something worse and bring it back to all of their countries?
Were participants required to get the vax for trials/competitions? I don't remember great gymnasts repeatedly falling off the bar, etc.
I also don't understand how people don't see the hypocrisy of masks required to walk out to the ceremony but they can stand the same distance from each other (or closer) and remove them for photos. The virus stops for pictures?
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There are worldwide TV contracts worth billions of dollars tied to this thing. It'll go forward one way or another to fulfill the contractual obligations. Same reason they did shortened hockey and basketball seasons last summer—it's too legally and financially burdensome to cancel it even during an unprecedented emergency.
Also, they need to perform their Satanic rituals during the Opening and Closing ceremonies.