What do exercise and standing in line have in common?

They are, in measure, healthy to humans.

The usually agile, rather impatient sports fan may not immediately understand this when things get stuck.

But what are the Olympic Games in Tokyo for?

Of course, for a boost in health policy.

Instead of investing billions in treating the consequences of increasing immobility, preventive investments are made against the threatening thickening of the youth (of the world).

At least that is what Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga now claims.

Anno Hecker

Responsible editor for sports.

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Standing in line is so far neither a sport nor a form of exercise.

A virtue, however.

Always one after the other.

Whether when boarding the Olympiabus or at the checkpoints before entering the arenas: disinfect hands, measure a fever, electronic face control, pocket scan and drinks check by requesting you to try it yourself, just like at the Kaiser's taster.

Who willingly takes a sip from a, say, liquid explosive-filled bottle?

Such a procedure does not tolerate any shortcuts, with all smiles all around.

The broomstick in the guard's hand gives the strategy some protection.

Why do the Japanese appear so slim?

And so the cognitive process of accepting snakes as insurmountable inevitably leads to a relaxation of the heart and brain. Ordered rest. Someone say the Olympic Movement doesn't understand progress. How was it in Rio 2016 after the opening ceremony? Thousands of journalists streamed from the Maracanã Stadium to the bus stop and tried to hijack the first Olympic bus, then the second, the third. . . A hand-to-hand combat experience in the glow of the Olympic flame, even before boxing, wrestling and the elbow faction in the back room of the games had even started their competition. A heaven for a snake culture. The big question is whether it also keeps you slim.

While the number of round balls of the Playstation generation is not just growing in the sporting nation of Germany, the Japanese seem to be in better shape. This is not a derivation from the huge difference in the medal table. Just an irritating observation, because at the same time on television one of the adored sumo wrestlers heaves his huge body onto the stage. Since watching sports moves people to imitate: why do the Japanese appear so slim? Is it the great desire for fish? Less Black Forest Kirsch, a genetic disposition? One does not know.

What is certain is that Tokyo Prefecture Governor Yuriko Koike is using the time of the Games to give citizens a healthier life. Two men hurriedly stuck a sign on the sidewalk on the sidewalk across from the hotel and pounded it (see the photo as evidence just after assembly): “No smoking on the street.” No puffing when passing by. It is still allowed to stand outside in front of the main press center in the smoking area. The sun is burning, 33 degrees Celsius, no shade. Smoke rises in the small square. Before that, addicts' crest swells. They languish in line. The line is too long.