Three days that we set foot in Japan, and we finally understood the general idea of ​​the health safety protocol imagined by local oils.

It is less a question of rotting the lives of those accredited, generally left in peace, than of removing them from the sight of a population which prays that the delta variant does not find the exit of the airport.

Everyone has spread the word: for junk food, remove your accreditation.

Same principle Friday for the opening ceremony, which one comes to wonder if it will only be broadcast by NHK, the national public television.

What is certain is that we will not see a Toyota product placement.

The Japanese brand put a billion dollars in the Olympic piggy bank and equipped the entire Olympic fleet with electrics (3,300 vehicles), which did not prevent it from releasing the CIOs in the open countryside just before the battle.

Its leaders will not attend the Olympic ceremony in the Olympic stadium either, "saddened by the absence of spectators".

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A sign ????

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Macron, the only head of state involved in the affair

A good excuse not to appear in the photos in the event of an industrial disaster in two weeks, when the Covid will make children everywhere. If 1,000 people in all attend the traditional parade which marks the first real highlight of the games, it will be the end of the world, indicate in recent days the Japanese media. Only one foreign head of state will make the trip, Emmanuel Macron. The President of France, and not just any one, does not give in to a histrionic impulse. "I'm going to Japan to support the French athletes and take over for 2024," he said on France 2. The Paris Games will arrive quickly, by force, and tradition wants in fact that the welcoming power transmits the flame to the lucky guy who follows.

Emmanuel Macron will be able to chat in the stands with Naruhito.

The Emperor of Japan, used to inaugurating chrysanthemums, must have felt obliged, after having expressed his "concern" a few days ago before the Olympics.

His grandfather, Hirohito, had opened the 1947 summer Olympics and the 1972 Sapporo winter Olympics. His father, Akihito, was in charge in Nagano, in 1998. The two men will not see many people, a priori. when the usual parade can take several hours.

Tuesday, a crazy rumor circulated, that of a ceremony only reserved for the flag-bearers of the delegations.

A simple misunderstanding: only the supervision is officially limited, with six officials authorized by the NOC to supervise the athletes.

"We will stay in our rooms"

But not sure as far as Clarisse Agbegnenou and Samir Aït-Said, the two flag bearers of the Blues are accompanied by a huge crowd. The organizing committee managed to limit the crowd without saying it: only athletes already present in the Olympic Village can come, and they can only arrive in the village five days before their competition. So it was quickly settled for all the sports of the second week, such as athletics, always at home. Those who are already there? If they usually get an elated idea of ​​the opening ceremony, this time they perceive it as an obligation of existence that they would finally have the right to dodge. It is even a relief for those who start their competition on Saturday at dawn.

“We have no regrets because we knew anyway that it did not fit with our competition schedule, explains Violaine Aernoudts, member of the quadruple in rowing. In general it's long, you have to stay up for a long time, and then it will probably be a totally different ceremony from what we saw on TV previously ”. “It will be a virtual opening ceremony for us, adds Laurent Tillie, the volleyball coach. We will stay in our rooms ”.

It is hardly that our representatives of tennis who wait to know their drawing of lots to decide: “I always wanted to participate in the ceremony during the previous editions, confides Mladenovic.

This sharing with everyone is really a boost for the individual event, I am very attached to it.

I would really like to participate in the parade if it is feasible ”.

“Being behind our two magnificent flag bearers is something I want to experience,” said Nicolas Mahut, also likely to play early Saturday morning.

Oyamada, the latest slippage

If they go, they won't have the chance to hear the theme composed by Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada, whose name has been making headlines in the Japanese press in recent days. In question, snippets of interview dating from Mathuzalem where the boy told without a hint of remorse the bullying he subjected to disabled students in his youth. We'll let you find out, but it's about forced masturbation and feces as a main course, among other things. In short, after having supported him keenly, the organizer of the Games ended up pressing the ejection seat, forcing the president of TOCOG Seiko Hashimoto, to a painful seppuku in public: “The responsibility for this choice falls on me. We should have checked his past more thoroughly and we did not.The two pillars of these Games are diversity and harmony, and we have always been guided by this ideal ”.

An ideal already undermined in March, when Hiroshi Sasaki, the artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, had to resign for having had the brilliant idea of ​​disguising a very famous Japanese actress as a pig. proud of its curves.

This is to tell you how it was going well, already.

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