{"id":115680,"date":"2021-02-02T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115680"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:12:05","slug":"tokyo-olympics-set-to-go-on-regardless-of-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tokyo-olympics-set-to-go-on-regardless-of-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics Set To Go On \u2018Regardless\u2019 Of COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftokyo-olympics-set-to-go-on-regardless-of-covid-19-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori vowed to proceed with the Summer Olympics &#8220;regardless&#8221; of the pandemic, squashing rumors that the games would be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will hold the Olympics, regardless of how the coronavirus [situation] looks,\u201d Mori <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-olympics-2020-japan\/olympics-games-will-go-ahead-regardless-of-pandemic-situation-tokyo-2020-president-idUSKBN2A20WU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-olympics-2020-japan\/olympics-games-will-go-ahead-regardless-of-pandemic-situation-tokyo-2020-president-idUSKBN2A20WU\">according<\/a> to Reuters. \u201cWe must consider new ways of hosting the Olympics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The virus surged in Japan last month, prompting a lockdown that ordered people to remain indoors and limit activity at restaurants and bars. But that is set to end on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a top Florida official has informed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the state is ready to host the summer Olympics games, planned for July 23 to Aug. 8, if host country Japan dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on Jan. 25 sent a letter to IOC President Thomas Bach \u201cto encourage you to consider relocating the 2021 Olympics from Tokyo, Japan to the United States of America, and more specifically to Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith media reports of leaders in Japan \u2018privately\u2019 concluding that they are too concerned about the pandemic for the 2021 Olympics to take place, there is still time to deploy a site selection team to Florida to meet with statewide and local officials on holding the Olympics in the Sunshine State,\u201d Patronis wrote in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridacfo.com\/sitePages\/newsroom\/pressRelease.aspx?id=5768\">letter<\/a>. \u201cI would welcome the opportunity to pitch Florida and help you make the right contacts to get this done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patronis touted Florida\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen most of the major states were shutting down their economies, we were fortunate enough to have a Governor that recognized the important balance of fighting the virus with keeping the economy open,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMoreover, Governor [Ron] DeSantis has partnered with the private sector to rapidly distribute vaccines to our most vulnerable populations. Unlike other states, when the COVID-19 vaccine comes to Florida it doesn\u2019t just sit on the shelf wrapped in government red tape; it moves fast to protect our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But at the time,\u00a0Bach also expressed confidence that the games will occur. \u201cWe have at this moment, no reason whatsoever to believe that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will not open on the 23rd of July in the Olympic stadium in Tokyo,\u201d Bach said. \u201cThis is why there is no plan B and this is why we are fully committed to make these games safe and successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Florida\u2019s chief financial officer said, the state has successfully allowed sports to take place during the pandemic. \u201cWhen most states shut down their sporting events, the city of Jacksonville hosted the Ultimate Fighting Championship (the UFC) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) setup the \u2018bubble\u2019 to hold games in Orlando. Moreover, during football season the National Football League (NFL) and college teams were able to compete on Florida soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Patronis said Florida was able to reopen its international tourist destinations, including Disney\u2019s theme parks, which \u201chave been open and operating safely in Florida for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, Disney serves as an incredible model for how to run a complex organization in the midst of COVID-19,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also took a personal angle in his letter to the IOC president: \u201cAlthough I write to you in a professional capacity, I should also add that I am a father of two boys who love sports, and the idea of cancelling the Olympics when there have been so many athletes who have worked so hard for this opportunity is a tough pill to swallow. I\u2019ve always believed that sports and competition makes our world a better place, and these athletes demonstrate to children around the world that when you work hard, and put your mind to something, anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori vowed to proceed with the Summer Olympics \u201cregardless\u201d of the pandemic, squashing rumors that the games would be canceled. \u201cWe will hold the Olympics, regardless &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892460,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3774,4825,4828,4822],"class_list":["post-115680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-covid-19","tag-olympics","tag-pandemic","tag-tokyo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}