If the pandemic continues on its current course its highly dobutful we'll have an olympics.

If this thing gets into Africa it could be very devastating with the lack of health care they have in that region

Only 57% of athletes have qualified because all the lead up events are being cancelled.

There's not a chance the Olympics will go ahead. None. Zero. That they are still talking as if they will is truly just bizarre (could they possibly really think they will, or is there something else at play, and they *need* to keep up appearances for now - thinking something to do with insurance or some other such unfathomable money issue?)

Trevor,

Whilst I agree with you. No chance Australia's would accept their government welding them into their houses.

Absolute nonsense from Thunder Jam! South Korea with 80 million people now has the curve headed back down in the right direction. Australia has followed a very similar path. The media will cop plenty of backlash for the Daley it has done when we are out the other side.

"unfathomable money issue"

how many billions have Japanese government spent on building stuff? How many billions of tv/streaming advertising slots have been booked? does IOC want to refund the billions in broadcasting rights they've sold?

"despite Scott Morrison's travel ban"
there is no ban. Just a Level 4 advice not to travel.

" If this gets into 3rd world countries"
USA is in deep trouble. They're pretty much toast. Their reported numbers have more than quadrupled this week and we know that's greatly under reported - they've only just established their testing regime, and it's 8 weeks since that first case in Seattle. Their slow response means they've now even got cases in their island territories - Guam, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. They also have a culture of strong resistance to efforts to curb individual freedoms, like personal movement. So I expect their numbers to be in the million plus range by July 24, when the Olympics is scheduled to start.
Most of Australia's cases linked to overseas travel from known destinations have been attributed to travel from the USA. We were similarly slow to respond with self-isolation and entry bans from USA entrants and entrants from elsewhere.

And if the Olympics go ahead, will athletes and officials be expected to stay in the Olympic Village to reduce risk of COVID-19 getting into the village and infecting everyone? Or will the village become a hotbed of infection anyway, like the Diamond Princess, because there's bound to be some athletes and officials who bring COVID-19 with them?

Well, Boguts ruled himself out so no need for its and buts including him in team.
When does flu season start in southern hemisphere? Despite precautions and vaccinations it hits hard in winter months. What do you think is going to happen with corona then, it'll be out of control, virtually the whole population will have it. What they are trying to do is level out the spike, medical system cannot cope with a sudden increase of cases in a short time period. What they want is the rate of infection to be spread out over a longer period of time allowing for emergency departments not to be flooded at once. If you're a fit healthy person it's probably better you contract it now while we can cope than in July when hundreds of thousands will have it.

Proud, I hope your joking or being sarcastic.
Here's my turn to be sarcastic. Tokyo is sparsely populated, virus wouldn't spread quickly. Often seen vision of their trains having hardly any passengers on them. And packing people into the athletes village where they're going to and fro from events, nah, no danger there.

American athletic and swim teams already saying it should be delayed a year. No way will nba players go. It won't happen and if it does go ahead it will be so reduced in quality it’s not going to matter much.

Just put it back a year, ffs its held every 4 years so not like its cancelling seasons. And as said, what about some qualifying events that haven't been held.