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An international court has reduced the Russian international sports ban to 2 years.  

They will still not be eligible to compete in Tokyo next summer, nor Beijing the following winter. 

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Among the insurrectionists that raided Capital Hill on the 6th was US swimming gold medalist Klete Keller.   

He was identified because of his height and because he was filmed wearing his USA Swimming jacket during the riot.  He was fired from his real estate job and arrested yesterday. 

 

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Well I'm not shocked since they apparently haven't even started any kind of vaccinations.

(There was increased skepticism towards the mRNA vaccines, along with a longer period of time for government approval)

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While I am sure it will be cancelled - you would think a story of that magnitude would have more than one unnamed source

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Florida jokes are old, played out, and fucking boring.  But god damn it, they've got to stop making it so fucking easy.  

BTW, the hard pushback from last week's story makes me think there's zero chance Tokyo doesn't happen. 

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US Gymnastics coach John Geddert has committed suicide after being charged with 20 counts including human trafficking and sexual assault. 

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The Olympic torch relay has begun today.  

120 days til the opening ceremonies. 

So... let's look ahead to 2032!    Brisbane is "strongly" preferred by the IOC to host the games. 

Other cities thinking about taking a shot:  Shanghai, Istanbul, Madrid, and a possible joint bid between Seoul and Pyongyang(!). 

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North Korea claims they have withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics citing COVID concerns (Japan's Olympic Committee says they haven't received any notice yet)

 

 

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The first athletes have arrived in Tokyo. The IOC is attempting an NBA-style bubble, and failing that they are making every athlete sign a hold harmless contract.  So that's clearly going great.

Japan is currently trying to vaccinate all of their athletes before the games start.  It's going.... okay.

Latest poll has 80% of the city's population against the games happening, and there is talk that no fans will be in attendance for a lot of the sports. 

Meanwhile...

5 time Olympic volleyballer Kerri Walsh-Jennings and Brooke Sweat are out of their qualifying tournament after having lost in a qualifying round.  This will probably end the 42 year old Walsh-Jennings' Olympic career.  

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On 6/7/2021 at 3:25 AM, Dolfan in NYC said:

Acknowledge. Your. Tribal. Chief. 

Simone Biles is amazing. There won't be another like her.

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I honestly can't remember an Olympics with less hype going into it in Canada, obviously part of that is how the rescheduling probably messed up a ton of advertising, combined with potential fear the games wouldn't happen at all. But man, it's *quiet* about it around here. I'm sure it will ramp up hard in the last couple weeks but it's genuinely hard to find a lot of excitement considering that Canada are really not very good in the summer games to begin with.

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I was going to say isn't that just because it's the summer games, not the winter ones (even discounting the NHL issue).

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