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The story
Operational mishaps keep surfacing at the Asian Games currently underway in Aichi/Nagoya. Thailand’s delegation was reportedly turned away from their lodging and forced to spend the night outdoors, and during the South Korea match the anthem played was North Korea’s national anthem instead of South Korea’s. Threads on 5ch are full of comments calling it ‘the worst Asian Games in history,’ while others defend the organizers, arguing ‘Asian Games have always been like this, not just when Japan hosts,’ and some point out that the room shortage stemmed from events being added to the schedule just before the Games began — leaving opinion split over who’s really to blame.
What people said
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North Korea's anthem plays during the South Korea match
Why couldn't they find the registered names?
Is the hotel staff really the one at fault here?
https://x.com/PonChak_mania/status/2100868430702489631
Funny how even the Koreans in here are staying calm about it lol
Guess the smartphone generation really is this jaded everywhere in the world
That thing's still going?
Of course — the Chunichi Dragons are basically its only redeeming quality ("Chuni" = local slang for the Chunichi Dragons baseball team, often joked about as the city's only claim to fame)
Is that really something to brag about?
Isn't that more of an embarrassment?
The athletes' hotel stinks so bad the players are sleeping at the venue instead
Meals are nothing but rice balls
The athletes' village facilities don't even have a roof — worse than a refugee camp
— and that list's still missing stuff
I mean, tens of thousands of people are coming — hotels alone were never going to cut it
Does an international tournament even still do that?
Is the sport itself being run half-assed too?
Wait, linesmen?
You mean they're calling it by eye?
In this day and age?
Japan doesn't have the national strength to host international events anymore, so might as well just let them show off the mess
No, actually — the organizing committee already announced they've dealt with it
Correction:
not "Nagoya" —
"Japan"
Nah, you'd normally check the audio file before playing it though…
If nobody knows what's actually going on
Of course no one's going to show up
Background and key points of debate
The Asian Games are considered Asia’s largest multi-sport event after the Olympics, and host-city operations tend to draw close scrutiny from international media. In this case, events were added to the schedule shortly before the Games began, pushing attendance past the hotel capacity originally planned — one factor behind the lodging trouble — and thread opinion is split over whether responsibility lies with the organizing committee or with the OCA. As for the anthem mix-up, since the operational setup simply plays whatever audio file each country provides, it’s likely a clerical error from inadequate checking rather than any intentional political provocation — a distinction that’s easy to overlook. It’s also a common pattern in coverage of this kind of international event that criticism aimed at the host city, “Nagoya,” quickly escalates into broader judgments about “Japan” as a whole.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nanademo Jikkyo G) thread “Nagoya Asian Games has completely fallen apart.”
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