Olympics Postponed

[GetX'd]

Just read the 2020 Summer Olympics have officially been postponed until 2021. It’s about time they got in the real world. They were saying up until yesterday they were going to run them regardless. I’m sure everyone was wondering how the hell that was possible. Has this ever happened before?

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[mopar 3 B]

Has happened a few times. Time to make it permanent and put a stop to this commercial endeavor.

 

[slepr1]

Never postponed before but canceled 3 times due to wars.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_q7p6nvVa9R1v62me4.mp4

Meanwhile at a olympic training home....​

 

[Budnicks]

Be ran before the next calender year July 2021

The athletes are training to be at their peak by July
time to go back & train more now

It's just different professional sports now anyway
very little amateur sport/athletes in Olympics now
you can thank especially China, Russia, Cuba
E. Germany, later Spain & the rest of the former USSR communist block
for allowing roid'd up & 24/7 paid for govt. owned/sponsored
professionals to be able compete
(doing blood cleansing & oxygenation, after HGH, steroids, to bypass the rules)
the USA & other countries are now (have been for a while)
on a bit more even playing field (even for their own cheaters roid'd up athletes)
All Professionals
especially in Hockey (winter) & Basketball, Baseball, Softball,
even golf since now 2016...
I don't like all the damn X-game junk-sports added,
all of which, are pretty much all professional too
even track & swimming of all sports, is all pretty-much all professional now

very, very few younger HS age (maybe in Gymnastics)
or actual collegiate athletes, very few privateers, none govt. owned/sponsored
that are still within the amateur &/or NCAA good standings, anymore

It's all about sponsorship & big $$ shoe, uniform or clothing deals,
TV & advertising big $$'s, swag to sell to the public too



I still like watching the Summer Olympics
I like track & field the best...
IMHFO it's still the purest form of sport
(even if 1/2 are roid'd up or blood doping, to be able to compete,
with all the other countries that do the exact same thing)

I just wish it was all amateur athletes like intended, like it used to be
& the countries that failed to comply would be punished
either comply or not be able to compete PERIOD

 

[GetX'd]

I think Russia has been banned from this Olympics for just that reason. I’m not sure if it was summer or winter or both.... cheaters

 

[Budnicks]

I think Russia has been banned from this Olympics for just that reason. I’m not sure if it was summer or winter or both.... cheaters

Russia was only 1 of them, not sure when the sanctions end either
It's not all of their athletes, not sure which teams/sports were affected

their athletes can compete if they are cleared sanctions
just not under the banner/flag of Russia or whom ever

I can remember the name of it either, I'm having a brain fart
Olypmic Athletes competing from _____ (no flag except the Olympic flag)
I saw people from Russia competing in the trials, track & field