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The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, which closed on October 4, marked Japan’s first time hosting the event in 32 years, since the 1994 Hiroshima Games. At the joint wrap-up press conference, the OCA touted the Games’ success by citing over 50 world records and more than 90 Asian records, but a remark made at that same conference — that out of more than 100,000 vehicle movements, only one or two were delayed, amounting to a mere 0.000001% of the total — drew heavy attention on 5ch. Bunshun Online reported that the organizing committee was thrown into internal chaos by athlete bus transport troubles, and the thread split between those pointing out the math error in the OCA’s statement and those who saw the bus issue itself as a symbol of declining operational competence.
The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games — Japan’s third time hosting the event, and its first in 32 years — closed on October 4. That day, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organising Committee (AINADOC) held a joint press conference to review the Games. The OCA emphasized the Games’ success by pointing to the many new records set and praised the new, sustainable operating model, while Organising Committee Chairman and Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura spoke about the various operational challenges that had to be dealt with during the Games.
OCA Coordination Committee Chairman Tayyab Ikram praised the event, saying “Aichi-Nagoya has been a wonderful experience for Asia’s top athletes.” As evidence, he cited more than 50 world records, over 90 Asian records, and more than 200 Games records. “We are proud of our athletes. This clearly shows that our objectives were achieved,” he said.
OCA Director General Husain Al-Musallam followed, saying “the numbers speak for themselves” in reference to the record-breaking performances. “Athletes cannot deliver their best performances without good sleep, good transportation, good medical care, and good food. These achievements would not have been possible without the organizing committee creating the best possible environment for the athletes,” he said, heaping praise on the operations.
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What people said
So you're saying someone engineered the narrative to make it look that way??
…that right there IS a mistake.
The math is just wrong, lol
For starters, they botched the math themselves.
[Asian Games] Behind the scenes of the endless bus transport troubles with Tobu Top Tours — organizing committee's internal chat filled with cries like "the grilling just keeps coming" and "the people on the ground are getting cornered"
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3015be4a9690496aa420b7339a562760dee29a7d
Don't make excuses.
Did the Tokyo Olympics ever make this much news over operational screwups?
These organizers were seriously garbage.
That many world records actually got set? I only knew about the swimmer, Ohashi.
Honestly, Seiko Hashimoto should call the organizers in and give them a proper dressing-down.
There were at least two separate incidents of athlete bus mix-ups and people getting left behind, you know?
Luckily, quick thinking by the Japan national team athletes (men's volleyball and men's soccer) kept it from turning into a real disaster, but between wrong destinations and other transport screwups, there are probably a mountain of other cases that never came to light.
Are you saying there were never any failures back then?
Can you say that to Renya Mutaguchi? (WWII general infamous for the disastrous Imphal campaign)
Have you never heard of the Osaka World Championships in Athletics? (the 2007 event, notorious for its own operational mess)
Both the Expo and the Olympics were a disaster before they even opened. They just scraped things together to make the final numbers look good.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Aichi-Nagoya Games marked Japan’s first hosting in 32 years, since the 1994 Hiroshima Games, and the OCA summed up the event as a “success” on the strength of more than 50 world records and over 90 Asian records. What drew criticism was the explanation given for the vehicle-dispatch trouble — that out of more than 100,000 vehicle movements, only one or two were delayed, amounting to 0.000001% of the total. In reality, one or two out of 100,000 works out to 0.001–0.002%, and the thread filled up with people pointing out that the figure was off by nearly three orders of magnitude, not just one. Separately, Bunshun Online (reposted via Yahoo! News) reported that the organizing committee’s internal chat was in uproar over the bus transport chaos, also detailing an incident that nearly caught up members of the men’s volleyball and men’s soccer national teams. The thread split between reactions mocking the faulty math and reactions treating the trouble itself as a symbol of Japan’s declining organizational competence — but both sides zeroed in on the same thing: the OCA’s defiant insistence that “there was no mistake.”
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuhou+) thread “OCA on Repeated Operational Trouble at the Aichi-Nagoya Games: ‘Only one or two cars were delayed. That’s a mere 0.000001% of the total. Where exactly did a mistake happen?’.”
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