Perspective | Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else

Somewhere along the line Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool. But Japan didn’t surrender its sovereignty when it agreed to host the Olympics. If the Tokyo Summer Games have become a threat to the national interest, Japan’s leaders should tell the IOC to go find another duchy to plunder. A cancell

[Hasen]

“Von Ripper-off, a.k.a. IOC President Thomas Bach”

[cinefuk]

何の権力もない偽物の権威IOC #ThomasBach を恐れるのを辞めろ、とThe Washington Post紙。 #Tokyo2020『Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the #InternationalOlympicCommittee decided to treat Japan as their footstool. 』

[legoboku]

“Somewhere along the line Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool.”

[quick_past]

“Olympic pillage ”🤣

[nilab]

ぼったくり男爵 Baron Von Ripper-off / "Somewhere along the line Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool." "Von Ripper-off, a.k.a. IOC President Thomas Bach"

[Vorspiel]

2020を中止しようがしまいが、現状を覚えてる日本人は(そして他国民も)今後のオリンピック自国開催など絶対に支持しないだろ。だから安心して中止してくれw 少なくともIOCに対しては強気の交渉を仕掛けるべき

[mshkh]

"Von Ripper-off, a.k.a. IOC President Thomas Bach" バッハ会長をぼったくり男爵と言ってる。痛烈

[rawwell]

"Either the IOC is deluded about the real cost-risks when it insists that a 9.1 percent contingency is sufficient, or the Committee deliberately overlooks the uncomfortable facts. In either case, host cities and nations are misled,”

[remoteworker]

もっと薪をくべてください

[narwhal]

"Baron Von Ripper-off"

[aka85s]

1行目からキレキレすぎて笑う

[kazutox]

中止だ中止

[A1riron]

オフィシャルぼったくり髭男爵バッハ。

[aaasukaaa]

“Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else”

[ardarim]

Exactly!

[mayumayu_nimolove]

まあここで中止したら今生きてる人が生きてる間に日本でオリンピックが開かれる事はないだろうな。

[acealpha]

こういう米国主張に対して、仮に我々は一切の損失を払わないと日本が主張したらどう反応するんだろうな トータルで見れば米国企業が相当な機会損失ありそうなんだが

[Ta_Howait]

日本でも引用報道されたワシントン・ポストのperspective（様々な見方）。

[tomono-blog]

“The Olympics always cost irrational sums”五輪開催は常に不合理な金額を必要とする

[y_as]

でもオリンピックやめたいって言ったら、バッハ会長から英語で捲し立てられて、日本の政治家おじいちゃんたちじゃ怖くて泣いちゃうもん。だから仕方ないんだって。

[allezvous]

IOCが訴えるとしてどこの誰がどうやって裁くのかというのは、やっぱ疑問というか無理やろと思うわな