#nomoreolympics — Public Fediverse posts
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"...the international spectacle has become synonymous with overspending, corruption, and autocratic regimes"
"...when populations are given a say in whether their city should take on an Olympics, the answer is almost always an emphatic no"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/08/ending-the-olympics-tokyo/619666/"[IOC in Mumbai] confirmed baseball-softball... to be added to the 2028 LA Olympics."
🔸Baseball already has World Series, soccer has World Cup etc.
Should slim down, reform or end Olympics.
https://english.kyodonews.net/tokyo/news/2023/10/1cc772952d8c-update1-olympics-baseball-softball-among-5-additional-sports-in-2028.html
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"Corporate leaders and govt officials in Kansai have emphasized that the expo is a national, not a local, project and that other cities and prefectures should prioritize it, even over their own needs." #Osaka #Japan
https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/111221389419198543
🔸Déjà vu of Tokyo2020 'Recovery Olympics' which sucked up nationwide construction workers, thus delaying recovery work for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami for yet another white elephant.🙄 #NoMoreExpos #NoMoreOlympics #WhiteElephant