A surprise ... an American state requests hosting the Olympics instead of Tokyo

Florida's chief financial officer informed the International Olympic Committee that the US state is ready to host the Summer Olympics, in light of speculation about Tokyo's retreat from hosting due to the repercussions of the emerging Corona virus pandemic.

Jimmy Patronis sent a message to the German, Thomas Bach, president of the International Committee, "urging you to consider moving the 2021 Olympic Games from Tokyo, Japan to the United States of America, and specifically to Florida."

He continued: "In light of media reports of Japanese officials' unspoken concern about the inability to hold the Games due to the pandemic, there is still time to deploy a team (from the International Olympic Committee) to select sites in Florida."

Patronis’s message posted on the Internet touched on the state’s supposed power to spread vaccination, reopen the economic reopening and sporting events it hosted during the pandemic similar to the last season’s sequel to the NBA, as well as the fact that its theme parks, including Disney World, are open to business. Commercial.

But Florida has suffered greatly from the pandemic, with more than 25,000 deaths out of a total of 420,000 in the country.

"Whatever precautions are required, let's define and get them done," said Patronis.

And the organizers of the Olympic Games, which were postponed from last summer to next July due to Corona, insisted on their commitment to hold them at the new date.

"I am determined to create safe and immune games as proof that humanity will overcome the virus," Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said last week.

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