Von Ripper-off, a.k.a. IOC President Thomas Bach

cut one's losses

abandon an enterprise or course of action that is clearly going to be unprofitable or unsuccessful before one suffers more loss or harm.

 

日本は五輪を諦めてさっさと損切りし、IOCに略奪は他国でやれと告げるべし。ベテランスポーツコラムニストがIOCの拝金体質を痛烈批判。「略奪男爵ことバッハ会長とその取り巻きは、王族が巡行先の小麦を食べ尽くすように、ホスト国を痛めつける常習犯だ」とかパワーワード満載https://t.co/RaQlnq2t9q

— junkTokyo (@junktokyo) May 5, 2021

Von Ripper-off, a.k.a. IOC President Thomas Bach, and his attendants have a bad habit of ruining their hosts, like royals on tour who consume all the wheat sheaves in the province and leave stubble behind.

Where, exactly, does the IOC get off imperiously insisting that the Games must go on, when fully 72 percent of the Japanese public is reluctant or unwilling to entertain 15,000 foreign athletes and officials in the midst of a pandemic?


The answer is that the IOC derives its power strictly from the Olympic “host contract.” It’s a highly illuminating document that reveals much about the highhanded organization and how it leaves host nations with crippling debts. 

In September, a report out of Oxford University’s business school found that the IOC has consistently “misled” countries about the risks and costs of hosting. 

When the Games reasonably could be portrayed as a source of international tourism revenue, perhaps some of the expense could be justified. But now the costs to the Japanese people run much deeper than financial. 

騙された日本人関係者も悪いな。