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Canadian IOC member Dick Pound says if there was a drop-dead date for cancelling or postponing the Tokyo Olympics, that day has passed.

Pound reiterated a comment he first made to the Evening Standard in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“I think every effort is going to be made to get people vaccinated,” Pound said. “Personally, I think you’d have to be out of your mind not to be vaccinated if you’re going to a place that’s not far from the epicentre .” “Just in Ontario, we’ve seen quite a few people who have been vaccinated who have become ill, and even a couple who have passed away, and we now have at least one significant outbreak of the Indian variant, the B.1.617.2. And so, the vaccine is incredible, 95 per cent if not more protective, but it’s not 100 per cent.

In addition to the IOC and Tokyo organizer protocols which have been detailed in the Tokyo 2020 Playbooks — the third and final version of which is expected to be released later this month — the COC has developed its own set of protocols. About 70 per cent of the population is not expected to be inoculated before the Games. Japan is vowing to soon start administering one million doses daily. It currently is giving about 500,000 per day

 

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If he’s Canadian, shouldn’t it be Dick Kilogram?

I'm sorry to be so harsh, The athletes going to visit at the Tokyo Olympics are selfish ogres who don't care what happens to others for their own benefit. Japanese citizens hate them very much and find them very annoying.

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I can’t take anything seriously from dick pound..mike hunt on the other hand ..

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