The official Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Games Twitter account offers no inkling that the novel coronavirus pandemic has threatened the Games – and the account's cheery tone is prompting sarcastic online replies.
Japanese officials insist the Olympics will go on as planned, and the Tokyo 2020 tweets reflect this.
Early in March, as the mascots danced in front of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia,"NatsuOtaku" wrote:"Are they going from country to country announcing a postponement?" "First, the IOC and the Tokyo organising committee are in denial. They have never had to cancel an Olympics for anything but a world war," he said.
Tokyo 2020's social media is run by an in-house team. Staff on the international side is a mixture of Japanese and foreigners."I think they have a certain responsibility to issue correct information, but whether that should be on Twitter or on a different media is the issue," said Daichi Oshimi, an assistant professor at Tokai University's Department of Sport and Leisure Management.
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