Well -- how many Olympic athletes bouncing on a bed in Japan are needed to break it. The answer appears to be 9. Video of Israeli athletes breaking cardboard village bed goes viral https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/07/29/national/olympics-bed-breaks/ A video of nine Israeli Olympians jumping on a so-called anti-sex bed in the athletes village until it broke has gone viral, Israeli local media reported. According to reports, the now-deleted video in which the athletes tested the strength of the recyclable cardboard bed frame was uploaded by Ben Wanger, a U.S.-born baseball player on the Israeli Olympic team, to his TikTok and Twitter accounts on Monday. In the video, nine athletes jump on a single bed until it breaks. The beds were designed to support weights of up to 200 kilograms, according to manufacturer Airweave. The video has since been deleted but has drawn angry responses in Japan. According to local reports, it was removed at the request of the Israeli Olympic Committee. “It’s not funny at all. As a Japanese, it makes me very sad,” said one internet comment. “I don’t understand why anyone would destroy something belonging to someone else,” another said. Many other athletes have taken to social media sites to share their opinions on the now infamous beds. American distance runner Paul Chelimo wrote on Twitter on July 17 that the beds were “aimed at preventing intimacy among athletes.” Chelimo, among others, dubbed them anti-sex beds. The following day, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan debunked the rumor that the beds easily break by filming himself doing a test jump on the bed on Twitter. “In today’s episode of fake news at the Olympic Games, the beds are meant to be anti-sex. They’re made of cardboard, yes. But they are apparently intended to break under sudden movements. It’s fake news,” McClenahan says in the video that has been viewed more than 3.8 million times.
Kendricks tested negative for Covid prior to boarding the plane to Tokyo. He tested negative for Covid for several days after arrival in Tokyo... Now he's tested positive for Covid. The question for IOC and the United States team is to determine who infected him and others via contact tracing. Also, these athlete's vaccination status should be documented and not shared so that the info can be used to determine how many vaccinated athletes tested positive versus unvaccinated athletes tested positive. Japan has high praise for contact tracing and they used it well to quickly identify infected and then quickly isolation of the infected in Covid 2020. There's an obvious flaw somewhere in which elite athletes are testing positive even though they may barely have any symptoms...a positive test prevents them from competing and removal from the Olympic Village to a quarantined hotel. wrbtrader
With all the "bed bouncing" going on... the athletes probably don't want to reveal all of their "contacts". There seems to be a total lack of contact tracing at the Olympic except for identifying who was a "positive test" athlete's roommate and forcing the roommate to isolate. -- Of course, all of this is really driven by the IOC who owns all the operations related to the Olympic Village and designated hotels. The IOC does not want to perform effective contact tracing within their own venues. Japan has still been contact tracing their own citizens outside the Olympic venues -- and doing it effectively still. So the Olympic test situation can not be placed on Japan. ======================================================== I am watching the U.S. women's soccer match versus the Netherlands on the TV (the local Spanish Channel). It is 2-2 in the second extended time. We will see how it goes.
GXB had a long stint in the toilet this morning, but not to worry, he's back now to spread his crap here instead.
Most likely due to athletes like this... Michael Andrew... not only an antivaxxer but an anti-masker who refuses to follow the rules. Unvaccinated Swimmer Michael Andrew’s Mask Refusal At Olympics Prompts U.S. Review The athlete was called out by USA Today for failing to wear a face covering in the mixed interview zone. All other U.S. swimmers reportedly have followed the rules. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-andrew-mask-olympics_n_6103b060e4b0f9b5a23231db
IOC will crack down on people like that after they've already stated prior to the Olympics that athletes like that will get a "warning first" and if they continue breaking the rules...they will not be allowed to compete...essentially asking the country to send the athlete back home. I've seen other athletes interviewing together and breaking the rules (pulling down their face masks)...apparently, they're roommates at the Olympic Village. Health rule enforcement will change fast as soon as a famous returning Olympic Gold medalist there to defend their title or someone else that's famous and a gold medal favorite...test positive for Covid and its revealed the athlete had not been following the agreed upon guidelines. I saw the U.S. swimmer Ledecky telling another swimmer from I think was Brazil to pull up her face mask. The other swimmer hesitated and Ledecky said it again...that Brazil swimmer then pulled up her face mask. wrbtrader
NBC boss insists Tokyo Olympics will be 'profitable' despite massive viewership drop CEO Jeff Shell laments 'a little bad luck and this drumbeat of negativity' https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-boss-insists-tokyo-olympics-profitable NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell insisted on Thursday that NBC’s costly investment in the Tokyo Olympics will be profitable despite a massive drop in viewership that reportedly has caused "anxiety" for the network’s advertisers. Through five days of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, NBC’s average primetime audience of 15.2 million viewers is down 47% from Rio in 2016 and 57% from London in 2012. The opening ceremony, delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, drew 16.7 million viewers for NBC on Friday, the smallest audience for the network broadcast since the 1988 Seoul Games. "We had a little bit of bad luck and this drumbeat of negativity," Shell said during an earnings call with investors. "We got moved for a year and no spectators," Shell continued. "This has resulted in linear ratings being probably less than we expected … We’re going to be profitable on the Olympics." Shell’s optimistic view came two days after Variety senior TV editor Brian Steinberg wrote that the drop has spurred "advertiser anxiety." Steinberg quoted a media buying executive who said the early viewership "clearly are not what NBC, our agency or our clients were looking for" from costly investment. "This executive said early viewership trends were ‘disappointing,’" Steinberg wrote. "The size of the declines from the previous Rio Olympics have unnerved advertisers, who are believed to have invested more than $1.2 billion in the sports extravaganza," Steinberg added. "Little surprise, then, that NBCU and several media agencies have entered into discussions for ‘make goods,’ or ad inventory that is given to sponsors when a program fails to meet its original viewership guarantees." Earlier this week, Outkick founder Clay Travis told Fox News that a variety of issues are plaguing the Tokyo games. "I think there are many reasons why this Olympics is tanking compared to past Olympics. I think certainly the fact that it's occurring in Japan with no fans and with absurdly ridiculous COVID protocols that allow athletes to compete without masks, but then have to put on masks on the medal stand. I think all of those things work against the overall American audience for the Olympics," Travis said. Travis also feels America’s corporate media is also to blame after spending years fawning over athletes who undercut the idea of American exceptionalism. "I think that an attack of America, an attack on American exceptionalism by the media, which is real, has certainly undercut a lot of Americans' joy and excitement in celebrating America," Travis said. "When I was a kid and it wasn't that long ago, the medal count was a big deal because you wanted to win more medals than the Russians or the Germans or the Chinese or whoever our geopolitical foes were because competition on fields of athletic glory helped to, I would say, endorse the idea of American exceptionalism," Travis said. "Now, I just don't think that there's that same level of excitement."
Japanese athletes face Chinese nationalists' wrath after beating China at Olympics https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/china/china-japan-olympics-online-abuse-intl-hnk/index.html
Well one of the athletes put the free condoms to good use... Australian kayaker uses Olympic condom to fix her damaged kayak, wins gold, is your hero of Tokyo https://www.golfdigest.com/story/jessica-fox-kayak-condom-gold-medal-tokyo-olympics-australia