As opposition groups coordinate from Tokyo to Paris to Los Angeles, these Games raised a critical question – if a pandemic can’t cancel the Olympics, can anything?
April Ross completes her Olympics medal set with gold. Saturday has potential golds for US in baseball, basketball, golf, water polo and track.TOKYO – Audible in the nearly empty stadium as Tokyo prepared to open these Olympics last month, chants of several hundred protesters underscored the tension of these pandemic Games.Japan, like many recent and future host cities, had organized opposition to these Olympics.
Faced with opposition here, the IOC has pointed to these Games as a beacon of hope amid the pandemic. Faced with opposition from potential hosts in recent years, it has changed its bidding process and locked in hosts for the Summer Olympics through 2032. Chris Dempsey, who co-founded No Boston Olympics in opposition to that city’s failed bid for 2024, said opposition groups need to get started as early as possible. No Boston Olympics campaigned against that city as a potential host while still in the domestic phase, allowing the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to replace it with Los Angeles when Boston lost political support.
“The reality is the list of people who win is just tiny. The IOC, really powerful politicians, real estate developers, the police. That’s kind of who gets any benefit out of this, and then the people who lose, it’s a laundry list.” Acknowledging that Los Angeles opponents have a tougher case to make since it will build fewer venues, Dempsey said economic arguments can draw broad support. While residents can be displaced – more than 75,000 were for the Rio Olympics, for example – most people won’t be, so opponents need to find a way to appeal to them, Dempsey said.
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