Originally Posted by
KJ43
It's not just the Dutch causing these problems, though they do seem to have a few issues with their teams and communication.
The Olympics organizers have made a few pretty large blunders. There was the boat that was in the way during the start of the triathlon, the official crossing the BMX track while people were practicing, and what MinnMan posted about Van der Breggen being pulled off of her bike by the organizers. Those are just the three biggest errors I know of caused by the organizers.
Not good at all and makes the organizers look pretty bad imo.
It's almost like the Japanese nation isn't with it's heart in it. Let's face it, these arer just lousy Olympics with Japan just fulfilling it's obligation rather then showing itself off to the rest of the world like host nations are supposed to do. I feel these things are just symptoms of a wrong situation.
Maybe it's because the Dutch think they can ride their bike anywhere, but contrary to the BMX-incident Van der Breggen claims her incident wasn't really one and a mosquito was made into an elephant, she was stopped by an official and her bike fell, she didn't. But there are a lot of organizational issues outside the events and getting to the events. The rowers had 3 positive covidtests in their team/staff and the whole team had to go in isolation and it took days before they got permission to open a window. The other competitors weren't being nice either, but they responded with gold, 2x silver and 1 bronze. Still it's not how Olympics should be.