re: #363 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the ongoing crapfest which is the Summer Olympics in Tokyo:
Coco Gauff Withdraws From Olympics After Testing Positive For COVID-19 (The Root)
The 17-year-old tennis star was expected to lead Team USA’s tennis squad this year.
This whole thing has become a grotesque joke by this point. Even the half-measure of allowing Japanese citizens to view the games in-person is gone, so that now the opening ceremony will be to either total silence or canned “applause.” I get that there’s a lot of national pride locked up in hosting the games and the organizers likely don’t want these to be the first games canceled in peacetime, but the alternative is a hollow mockery of the whole thing that was already struggling to remain relevant in the face of financial ruin and widespread corruption that have plagued the games for decades now.