Olympics poll: 80 percent in Japan say Games should not be held in ’21
More than 80% of people in Japan who were surveyed in two polls in the last few days say the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed, or say they believe the Olympics will not take place.
The polls were conducted by the Japanese news agency Kyodo and TBS — the Tokyo Broadcasting System.
The results are bad news for Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee as they continue to say the postponed Olympics will open on July 23.
Tokyo is battling a surge of COVID-19 cases that prompted the national government last week to call a state of emergency. In declaring the emergency, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he was confident the Olympics would be held.
Japan has controlled the virus relatively well but the surge has heightened skepticism about the need for the Olympics and the danger of bringing 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic
athletes into the country.
The TBS poll asked if the Olympics can be held. In the telephone survey with 1,261 responding, 81% replied “no” with only 13% answering “yes.”
HIGH SCHOOLS
●Boys’ soccer – GMAC quarterfinal: Miami Beach 4, North Miami 1: Isrrael Rodriguez 1 goal, 1 assist; Gianlucca Calabrese 1 goal; Arsenio Didonna 1 goal; Patrick Mendoza 1 goal; Giovanni Sanna-Lenzi 1 assist; Sammir Doullouz 1 assist; David Sierra 1 assist. MB (6-0-3).
●Girls’ soccer: GMAC semifinal: Krop 2, Ferguson 0: Chloe Pomeranc 1 goal; Alysa Marquez 1 goal, 1 assist; Gkp Paula Canonico shutout.
●St. Brendan 8, Southwest 0: Emily Dow 2 goals; Emily Regalado, Paulina Llorens, Amanda Sumalla, Isabella Bowen, Elizabeth Del Campo, Alyssa Travieso 1 goal each. STB (6-3-1).
basketball: Southwest 68, Reagan 18: SW: Jose Vargas 10 pts, Gabriel Gonzalez 10, Carlos Taveras 9, John Mayora 9, Adrian Cruz 8, Joel Aloma 7, Glen Noel 4, Jaden Treto 3, Sean Perez 3, Sebastian Ching 3, Josnel Aloma 2. RR: Victor Rodriguez 11 pts, Adrian Santana 2, Chris Arroyo 2, Alex Villamil 2, Isidro Gutierrez 1. SW (9-1)
●Girls’ basketball — Krop 61, Archbishop McCarthy 50: Krop: Lindsey Weingard 21 pts, 6 asst., 4 steals; Emmy Mills17 pts, 17 reb; Lauryn Hornstein 16 pts; Neyida Michel 4 pts; Jada Pitts 3 pts. AM: Isabella Reynolds19 pts; Mia Avin13 pts; Amari Mackey10 pts; Kristen Woods 6 pts; Ashley Green 2 pts. Krop (8-3), AM (7-8). ●Miami Central 53, Krop 50: With the scored tied at 50, Daijia Lopez hit a winning 3-pointer with four seconds left. Kayla Clark scored 12 of Central’s 21 points in the fourth quarter. She finished with 23. Lindsey Weingard totaled 16 of Krop’s 19 points in fourth quarter. She had 28.
ETC.
Tennis: Australian ●
Open champion Sofia Kenin was eliminated from the season-opening Abu Dhabi Open in the quarterfinals after a threeset loss to Maria Sakkari. Kenin, of Pembroke Pines, won the opening set but faded as ninth-seeded Sakkari won 2-6, 6-2, 6-0.
Soccer: Celtic was
● without 14 players for its Scottish Premiership match against Hibernian after defender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the coronavirus and 13 teammates were considered in close contact. Second-placed Celtic played shorthanded and was held to 1-1. ... West Ham staved off potential embarrassment in the FA Cup on an 83rd-minute goal by Craig Dawson to see off nonleague Stockport 1-0 in the third round.
College basketball:
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Gonzaga and Baylor were the top two teams in The Associated Press preseason men’s college basketball poll, and after eight weeks that hasn't changed. The Zags (12-0) received 63 of 64 first-place votes and the Bears (11-0) had the other one. Villanova, Texas and Iowa rounded out an unchanged top 5.