Cancelympics

The current pandemic could lead to an Olympic Games getting cancelled for the first time since World War 2. But this is only if the pandemic gets worse. However, there are people who feel that the Olympics should have been cancelled altogether, especially when the Olympics failed in bringing peace and understanding through sports meetings. The failure of the Olympics to bring peace and understanding between peoples proved the Bible correct about "the way of peace they do not know." This is because there have been wars, genocides, pogroms, and cases of disrespect on a large scale in the years after the 1896 Olympics. In the case of the Rio 2016 Olympics, slum dwellers being made homeless for the sake of Rio de Janerio being an Olympic Games host city drew controversy. Recently, in the case of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the people who come from the parts of Japan that were devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami felt that the Olympics does not symbolise reconstruction in any way, and demanded that the Olympics should be cancelled amid the pandemic. Then we have the doping cases that result in athletes getting disqualified, resulting in hopes and dreams doomed to be dashed. So perhaps it would be better to not only cancel the Olympics, but abolish it so that other sports tournaments can get more attention.

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned and concluded as scheduled. The campaign to cancel it was not successful.