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What about the athletes who have been training for the event? Some of them won’t get a chance to participate in 4 years time.

• LatteLazy 6y ago
  That's a fair point, but they might just be put of luck. They'll have to live with world championships and similar. You can't exactly run a project at a multi billion dollar loss just because you want to be fair to a small number of people sadly.
  • stevegalla 6y ago
    > You can’t exactly run a project at a multi billion dollar loss What is the cost of running the games though? I assume (with absolutely no evidence) that the costs would be heavily skewed towards facilities setup and infrastructure. That’s a sunk fixed cost. I’m sure there is a large security and labor cost when the games are going on. I assume this would be a variable cost that would be reduced without spectators. If the majority of the cost has already been spent and it’s a relatively small (perhaps less than a few hundred million dollars) cost to conduct the games, why not go through with it? Maybe running a limited games could be a compromise? I suppose all of the Tokyo 2020 merchandise is already written off and useless. I acknowledge the whole calculus changes with public health and the pandemic. I’m addressing money as the issue. Anyways I’m a huge fan of all Olympic events, and the Olympics is the only sporting event(s) I watch. I look forward to them when they come, so I’ll definitely be sad if it was all cancelled, and I’m definitely biased.