Apparently, people are all bent out of shape because the Tokyo Olympic organizers lied about the weather conditions prevalent in the city in July and August. Because after all, it's not like people can look up average weather conditions in the city at that time of year and figure out that it's awfully hot, with a lot of humidity coming off Tokyo Bay, or anything like that. Except that's been the case for something like, oh, the last century, with clear indications in Japanese literature of oppressive summer weather in Tokyo going back, oh, "just" a millenium or so.
Really, it's more like "The IOC doesn't care", because the Olympics in my life have been hosted in Atlanta, Los Angeles (heat plus smog!), Barcelona, Rio de Janiero, Athens, and Beijing (more smog!). As long as there are big stadia and lots of fans and taxpayers willing to pay the cost, the IOC will send them an Olympics.
As Simone Biles will tell you, sports authorities don't give a (redacted) about athlete well being as long as the money is coming in. Maybe it's time to change our attitudes towards "sportsball".
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