At the Asian Games currently underway in Aichi/Nagoya, a string of mishaps — skimpy meals, chaotic accommodations, and transportation troubles for athlete delegations — has been reported across various media outlets. In response, the Games’ organizing committee issued a rebuttal statement on its official website on September 22. While the committee took the position that “the organizing committee is not the cause,” threads on 5ch kept pointing out problems the statement never addressed — no pickups at the airport, a soccer team taken to a baseball stadium instead, press buses that never showed up, and more. Opinions were also split over which of the French, Chinese, or Japanese companies running the event should actually bear responsibility.
Asian Games Organizers Fire Back! “The Organizing Committee Is Not the Cause,” Amid Reports of Skimpy Meals and Accommodation Chaos – Sports : Nikkan Sports
September 22, 2026, 12:41 PM
The organizing committee for the Aichi/Nagoya Asian Games, which has seen a string of operational mishaps and confusion, issued a rebuttal statement on its official website on the 22nd.
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
So what about everything else?
*Related thread:
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https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1789766453/
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But what about nobody showing up to pick teams up at the airport, teams getting taken to the wrong practice venue, or the bus the reporters were supposed to ride never showing up?
Overall operations: French company
Opening ceremony / event progression / cultural program: Chinese company
Transportation: Japanese company
maybe they should just cancel the whole Games.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLꉂꉂ(ᵔᗜᵔ*)
Meanwhile they wouldn't stop bashing the Osaka Expo forever lol
With this many problems piling up,
it's impossible to keep track.
but making sure the on-site staff does its job properly is literally the organizers' job.
These days the sports board is just baseball-and-soccer old guys.
There's no such world.
This particular issue is 100% on the federation.
This one, at least.
Is that so?
An event got added at the last minute,
and there have also been reports that some countries showed up with more participants than they'd notified in advance.
That's just astroturfing to get people saying exactly that.
All this is doing is exposing how incompetent they are lol
So here's probably what happened: they negotiated it, agreed "we don't have the capacity to feed that many extra people, so if you're bringing more, can the federation cover that part?" — and then nobody told the athletes, so it ended up looking like the organizers' fault.
No posters anywhere, just hand-written signs
Background and Key Points of Contention
This year’s Games are being run under a divided structure: France’s GL events handles overall operations, a Chinese company manages cultural programming such as the opening ceremony, and a Japanese company oversees transportation. Opinions in the thread were split — some argued that “ultimate responsibility for contracting and oversight has to rest with the organizing committee,” while others backed the committee’s own explanation that “the main causes of the delays were a sudden change in participant numbers and incomplete paperwork.” Posters also flagged several mishaps that the September 22 rebuttal statement never addressed at all — the missing airport pickups, a soccer team being taken to a baseball venue, and press buses that never showed up — and the fact that it’s unclear how much ground the statement actually covers is fueling the debate over who’s really responsible.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Asian Games Organizers Fire Back! “The Organizing Committee Is Not the Cause,” Amid Reports of Skimpy Meals and Accommodation Chaos.”
