Tokyo 2020 Olympics Using Cardboard Beds for Althetes

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Tokyo 2020 Olympics Using Cardboard Beds for Althetes

source: https://hypebeast.com/2020/1/tokyo-2020-olympics-paralympics-cardboard-beds-althetes-recycled

With the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games coming up this summer, host city Tokyo has just unveiled recycled cardboard beds that the althetes will be sleeping on.

The bed frames have been crafted from recyclable cardboard, while the mattresses for the beds will be formed of polyethylene materials that will be reused for plastic products after the events. The beds will be 2.10 metres long and the manufacturers say they will be able to support a weight of about 200kg, which is more than any athlete weighed at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. 18,000 beds will be needed for the Olympics, and 8,000 for the Paralympics. Following the games, the mattresses will be recycled into plastics.

The environmentally conscious sleeping arrangements were put on display for the media for the first time on Thursday at a mock apartment in the Tokyo 2020 headquarters. The apartment units, located in Tokyo Bay, will then be sold privately following the games, with prices starting at around ¥50 million JPY (approximately $456,000 USD). Check it out above.

In addition to the cardboard beds, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic medals have also been fashioned entirely out of recycled consumer devices, while the Olympic torch is made from aluminium waste and the podiums from recycled household and marine plastic waste. Even the electricity used during the event will come from renewable sources.

With people all over the world pushing for more sustainable efforts, the 2020 Tokyo Olympicslooks to be starting off on the right foot. The TokyoOlympics take place between July 24 and August 9 2020 and the Paralympics from August 25 to September 6.

[Mockngbrd]

If want to hey sho hey sho how? 

[ER-3682]

The Mattresses...will become Plastic Parts of a Japanese Car.

[Ody_2004]

2 hours ago, Mockngbrd said:

If want to hey sho hey sho how? 

Few day back on ST papers they got explain the bed can tahan heavy thrusting and 300kg.. they oso be giving away 1000 condoms for FREE..

I thot serious sportman must lun? whahahahahahaha

[Wt_know]

2 hours ago, Mockngbrd said:

If want to hey sho hey sho how? 

the used bed will be auctioned off fast and furious

japanese like to buy used underwear and used hey sho bed will be selling like hot cakes ...

more stains = higher price ... lol

Edited January 12, 2020 by Wt_know

[Watwheels]

This is homeless ppl idea, right? 🤣

After the Olympics it will be recycled for the homeless. Yay! New cardboards to sleep on. 😂

[kobayashiGT]

15 hours ago, Mockngbrd said:

If want to hey sho hey sho how? 

"they will be able to support a weight of about 200kg" - I think the Japanese have covered that. hahahha.

[Wt_know]

52 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

"they will be able to support a weight of about 200kg" - I think the Japanese have covered that. hahahha.

athlete has big build and physically strong ...

2 x person plus high torque thrusting ...

200kg may not enough to support  ... LOL

[Mockngbrd]

55 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

"they will be able to support a weight of about 200kg" - I think the Japanese have covered that. hahahha.

What if 3p?

[Wishcumsback]

Will Fukushima radioactive water be recycled  for Olympic use ?

Better than dumping into the ocean...HA!

 

 

[Mockngbrd]

[Ct3833]

what is amazing is not the beds but the amount of condoms being  issued during the event. 

 

......What athletes get up to after their events are completed has been well documented over recent Games given the number of condoms that organisers provide at the athletes’ village. London 2012 was dubbed ‘the raunchiest Games in history’ as 150,000 condoms were supplied for the 17-day competition, though Rio 2016 blew them out of the water as 450,000 were provided at an average of 42 per athlete.....

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/tokyo-2020-beds-athletes-sex-collapse-recycled-cardboard-condoms-how-many-a9277846.html

 

 

[kobayashiGT]

40 minutes ago, Mockngbrd said:

What if 3p?

Haha. I don't think they can solve all the problem.

[Wt_know]

tokyo must beat rio record !!!

gan ba deh ... 

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Abe says for first time that postponing Tokyo Olympics is an option

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games may become an option if holding the event in “complete form” became impossible amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abe also told a Diet committee meeting that canceling the games was not an option.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/23/national/shinzo-abe-japan-postponing-tokyo-olympics-is-an-option/#.XngKj-ozbIU

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Japan, Olympics chief agree to postpone Tokyo Games over virus
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/world/japan-will-hold-olympics-summer-2021-latest-pm-abe-says

TOKYO — Japan's prime minister and the head of the International Olympic Committee agreed to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Games by a year Tuesday (March 24) in an extraordinary move, unprecedented in peacetime, as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic.

"I proposed to postpone for about a year and president Bach responded with 100 per cent agreement," Mr Shinzo Abe told reporters referring to Mr Thomas Bach, head of the IOC.

The move would be a devastating blow for the city of Tokyo, which had won widespread praise for its organisation, with venues finished well ahead of time and tickets massively oversubscribed.

The Olympics, which has experienced boycotts, terrorist attacks and protests, but has been held every four years since 1948, would be the highest-profile event affected by the virus that has killed thousands and closed sports competitions worldwide.

The IOC has come under increasing pressure in recent days to postpone the Games, scheduled to start on July 24, with 1.7 billion people across the planet in lockdown to prevent the further spread of Covid-19.

Training has become impossible for many athletes and exposes them to the risk of contracting or spreading the disease. Competitions and qualifiers have been scrapped, while international travel is severely limited.

On Sunday, the IOC had initially given itself a deadline of four weeks to come up with a proposal to postpone the Games, a Herculean task that touches on every aspect of Tokyo 2020 planning from venues to security to ticketing.

But after Canada and Australia withdrew their teams and the powerful US Olympic Committee and World Athletics also joined the chorus calling for a postponement, the writing was on the wall for the July start.

Tokyo was spending some US$12.6 billion to host the Games, according to its latest budget, and experts believe a postponement could cost it some US$6 billion in the short-term before recouping it when they eventually go ahead.

It will also be a bitter blow to sponsors and major broadcasters who rely on the four-yearly extravaganza for critical advertising revenue.

It is not the first time Tokyo has seen unscheduled changes to the Games — it was due to be the first Asian country to host the Olympics in 1940 before pulling out due to international pressure over its war with China.

‘STUBBORNNESS AND ARROGANCE’

The IOC came under fire for taking so long to make its decision after other major events such as the European Football Championships already announced postponements.

British cyclist Callum Skinner had strongly criticised IOC president Thomas Bach, accusing him of placing his own interests first.

"Bach's stubbornness and arrogance has spectacularly failed in this instance and he has weakened the Olympic movement," Mr Skinner wrote on Twitter.

"This isn't the first time he has put his own motives above the athletes and the movement."

But Tokyo 2020 organisers point to the unparalleled complexity — not to mention cost — of shifting the Games. It is not even clear venues will be available and tens of thousands of hotel rooms will need to be cancelled and rebooked.

"It is mind-bogglingly complex to make a sudden change after seven years of preparation for the biggest sporting event in the world," Mr Michael Payne, the IOC's former head of marketing, told AFP.

Squeezing in the 16-day Games into what will already be a hugely crowded 2021 calendar is another major headache, with arguably the two biggest sports, swimming and athletics, due to hold their world championships that summer.

However, World Athletics has already said it was prepared to shift its world championships, scheduled for August 6-15 next year in Oregon, to accommodate a move in the Games. AFP  
 

[Wt_know]

do not allow “international spectators”

why still want to host?

Edited March 20, 2021 by Wt_know

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Asahi daily, an official Tokyo Olympics partner, calls for cancellation of Games

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TOKYO: Japan's Asahi Shimbun, an official partner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, called for the Summer Games to be cancelled in an editorial on Wednesday, citing risks to public safety and strains on the medical system from the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/asahi-daily--an-official-tokyo-olympics-partner--calls-for-cancellation-of-games-14887098