On 29th of July in opening ceremony at London Olympics, Japanese olympic team was kicked out from the olympic field after they marched a half of track.
Radiation matters.
Although I'm amazed to see they were able to participate.
I found the writing in a nationally famous bulletin board - 2 channel, in which the link was what you pointed out. No TV showed the scene, but NHK ( BBC in Japan) announcer said ' Japanese team seems to get out for a second ' but few noticed it meant japanese team didn't present themselves in a field.
Anyway this is a preventative measure. Olympic is the world where athletes compete a tenths of second. This is understandable.
I think the blog was written in japanese, but she took many pictures in sequence. So the situation they faced is apparent. And probably in japan no one but few noticed it.
Japanese TV crew must have taken the scene in a video, but it wasn't on the air. Some audience must have taken it in videos, so we will see tens of scenes in YouTube soon.
Apparently LOCOG have confirmed it, but claimed it was a mistake. Some of the Japanese team wanted to leave early as they were competing the following day, and that somehow ended up with the entire Japanese team leaving. I don't believe there is any malice involved here. But information is hard to find.
I don't think it's malicious, either. I think they could detect more than acceptable level of radiation from japanese team, and it was a preventative measure.
If the team was that contaminated with radiation, they would not be in London at all; they wouldn't have been allowed on an airplane.
Seriously, you've got to start testing these notions against reality and throwing out the ones that don't fit. As Roy Rogers is reputed to have said, "It ain't the things we don't know that hurt us; it's the things we know that ain't so." Given what you say is going on in your life, you're being hurt plenty by those things that aren't so.
From high rank politicians, famous doctors to rank and file, all people who knew this news say this is because of radiation. Russia has been importing used cars from japan for years but some news report says they were refused to pass in customs because of high level of radiation. Rumour says some tourist from japan couldn't enter the country because high level of radiation is detected from their clothings.
I don't mean to promote segregation of this kind. It would come up with unreasonable bias, but on the other hands we ought to prevent unnecessary contamination while it's possible.
If you were contaminated, it would be too late.
But if it has nothing to do with radiation, I'm sorry. I just want to transmit the overall atmosphere here in japan.
I've seen nothing about this from any source other than you. I appreciate you're concerned about radiation (although nothing you've said so far indicates that you have any legitimate reason to be so). But if you're going to make claims like that, you need to have some evidence to back them up. And so far, I'm just not seeing any.
The rhetoric from the anti-nuclear types is sounding outright paranoid to me. They are attributing complaints to radiation which have never been seen as a result of radiation before. This is delusional thinking.
Meanwhile, in the real world, things are rapidly getting back to normal:Fukushima seafood is now being shipped to Tokyo for public sale. This is the first attempt to sell Fukushima Prefecture’s seafood in the national capital. Wednesday’s shipment of 200 kilograms of octopus arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday. After not fishing for any seafood for 15 months, Fukushima fisherman began hauling in 2 kinds of octopus and one variety of clams in June. None of the three have any detectable Fukushima contamination in them. The seafood was taken from the waters off Soma City, 50km from F. Daiichi. The federation of fisheries cooperatives in Fukushima says it will study resuming fishing on a full-fledged basis after seeing how sales go in big markets like Tokyo. The octopus shipped to Tokyo will be sold on Thursday at Tsukiji market. (NHK World) Also, making Japan nuclear-free would cost at least $1 trillion over 20 years. That does not include other losses from e.g. climate impacts of fossil-fuel use.
There is pushback:Surprisingly, a few of the Tokyo demonstrators were not opposing nuclear restarts. They were protesting the tsunami of fear, uncertainty and doubt that has harmed the Tohoku region since 3/11/11, caused by scare-mongering rumors. Kotaro Kikuchi of Iwate said, "I guess most of the people who gathered here want to say 'no' to the restart of nuclear reactors. But I came here to say 'no' to "fuhyo-higai" (the damage caused by groundless rumors) that the Tohoku region has been suffering from [since the triple-meltdown].”
I can't find any news references in mainstream or social media, and only one blog entry with pics.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any articles that provide more insight?
A news search finds Japan upsets Spain in soccer, but nothing about opening ceremonies.
ReplyDeleteI have to say you've got to have video or it didn't happen.
The pictures I linked seem to show that it did happen, but there's no information about the event or why.
ReplyDeleteGetting video of the Olympics is nigh impossible, as NBC seems to have Roving Death Copyright Squads patrolling the Internet.
i was thinking this was a joke since I couldn't find any news about it either.....
ReplyDeleteIndeed, I think you could find it well.
ReplyDeleteI found the writing in a nationally famous bulletin board - 2 channel, in which the link was what you pointed out.
No TV showed the scene, but NHK ( BBC in Japan) announcer said ' Japanese team seems to get out for a second ' but few noticed it meant japanese team didn't present themselves in a field.
Anyway this is a preventative measure. Olympic is the world where athletes compete a tenths of second. This is understandable.
I think the blog was written in japanese, but she took many pictures in sequence. So the situation they faced is apparent. And probably in japan no one but few noticed it.
I think this is a trivial news even if it happened. Probably all had to have a doping test again.
ReplyDeleteJapanese TV crew must have taken the scene in a video, but it wasn't on the air.
ReplyDeleteSome audience must have taken it in videos, so we will see tens of scenes in YouTube soon.
Apparently LOCOG have confirmed it, but claimed it was a mistake. Some of the Japanese team wanted to leave early as they were competing the following day, and that somehow ended up with the entire Japanese team leaving. I don't believe there is any malice involved here. But information is hard to find.
ReplyDeleteThat explanation fits far better than anything related to radiation.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's malicious, either.
ReplyDeleteI think they could detect more than acceptable level of radiation from japanese team, and it was a preventative measure.
Were that the case, the team would be allowed to compete at all. Trust me, this has nothing to do with radiation.
ReplyDeleteIf the team was that contaminated with radiation, they would not be in London at all; they wouldn't have been allowed on an airplane.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, you've got to start testing these notions against reality and throwing out the ones that don't fit. As Roy Rogers is reputed to have said, "It ain't the things we don't know that hurt us; it's the things we know that ain't so." Given what you say is going on in your life, you're being hurt plenty by those things that aren't so.
From high rank politicians, famous doctors to rank and file, all people who knew this news say this is because of radiation. Russia has been importing used cars from japan for years but some news report says they were refused to pass in customs because of high level of radiation. Rumour says some tourist from japan couldn't enter the country because high level of radiation is detected from their clothings.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to promote segregation of this kind. It would come up with unreasonable bias, but on the other hands we ought to prevent unnecessary contamination while it's possible.
If you were contaminated, it would be too late.
But if it has nothing to do with radiation, I'm sorry. I just want to transmit the overall atmosphere here in japan.
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ReplyDeleteI've seen nothing about this from any source other than you. I appreciate you're concerned about radiation (although nothing you've said so far indicates that you have any legitimate reason to be so). But if you're going to make claims like that, you need to have some evidence to back them up. And so far, I'm just not seeing any.
The rhetoric from the anti-nuclear types is sounding outright paranoid to me. They are attributing complaints to radiation which have never been seen as a result of radiation before. This is delusional thinking.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, in the real world, things are rapidly getting back to normal:Fukushima seafood is now being shipped to Tokyo for public sale. This is the first attempt to sell Fukushima Prefecture’s seafood in the national capital. Wednesday’s shipment of 200 kilograms of octopus arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday. After not fishing for any seafood for 15 months, Fukushima fisherman began hauling in 2 kinds of octopus and one variety of clams in June. None of the three have any detectable Fukushima contamination in them. The seafood was taken from the waters off Soma City, 50km from F. Daiichi. The federation of fisheries cooperatives in Fukushima says it will study resuming fishing on a full-fledged basis after seeing how sales go in big markets like Tokyo. The octopus shipped to Tokyo will be sold on Thursday at Tsukiji market. (NHK World)
ReplyDeleteAlso, making Japan nuclear-free would cost at least $1 trillion over 20 years. That does not include other losses from e.g. climate impacts of fossil-fuel use.
There is pushback:Surprisingly, a few of the Tokyo demonstrators were not opposing nuclear restarts. They were protesting the tsunami of fear, uncertainty and doubt that has harmed the Tohoku region since 3/11/11, caused by scare-mongering rumors. Kotaro Kikuchi of Iwate said, "I guess most of the people who gathered here want to say 'no' to the restart of nuclear reactors. But I came here to say 'no' to "fuhyo-higai" (the damage caused by groundless rumors) that the Tohoku region has been suffering from [since the triple-meltdown].”
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