A poll in Tokyo reveals that more than 50 percent of city residents would love to give up the right to host the Olympic Games next summer

The Tokyo Olympic Village was due to open right now, just before the biggest celebration in the world - the Olympic Games. In fact, on the day when it was due to open, a poll was conducted among Tokyo residents who found that more than 50 percent of them would be happy if the games were postponed, and will not be held in the city next year either.

Three weeks are expected to mark exactly one year in the city for games that have been postponed to 2021, but currently the festivities, if held, will be modest. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Kuika is trying to soothe the atmosphere around the flames over the past week, saying: "The Games With us there will be the triumph of the human spirit, and I'm going to make a 120 percent effort to have the games out and be safe. "

However, there is a chance that she herself will not be there at all, given that elections will be held this Sunday in the land of the rising sun and will again contest her role as Tokyo governor. Next month, local Olympic committee members are set to begin talks with sponsors to continue supporting next year's games as well, but the question that is being repeated by both Olympic and local committee members is one: how do 15,400 participants in the Olympic and Paralympic games and another 80 A thousand volunteers fail to get infected in Corona?

There is hardly anyone talking about the spectators, given that it is already clear that the number of tourists outside Japan is going to be small, and the local audience will be the ones to fill the stadiums. And what if the games are not held? Here the opinions are already divided, and as before the cancellation of the current games, this time too there are opinions here or there and all, by the way, equally logical.

Some of the International Olympic Committee officials insist that this time there is no chance that the games will be postponed, because if they are postponed again they will no longer be held in Japan. Others want to suggest that Japan take time out and the world will continue to face the Corona next year, with the Olympic Games only in 2024 in Paris. They'll be back in Tokyo in 2028, and in Los Angeles they'll be in 2032 or so, the upcoming deadline is March in eight months, and who knows what world we will have then?

And what are Israeli and international Olympic athletes supposed to do? Continue to practice as if the games are taking place as usual, while at the same time taking into account that the current Olympic cycle is about to be lost.