Japan Women's Race to Tokyo 2020 Singles

Janard said:

O_O FTW took a game from Hayata

FTW: I was just pretending to be mediocre during T-league so that I can study all of you JNT girls.

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Tempest/Comet said:

With the Olympics just 3 months away (if indeed it can be held), 2/3s of the Japanese’s Women’s team are dropping like flies in the early rounds, not by the hands of CNT but by other foreign associations which they usually bested. Maybe canceling the Games is not a bad idea.

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Japan will win medals in TT. Big hopes obviously ride on Mima and Harimoto. Don't think can expect much on others, not to sound rude.

​​​​​​I expect Mima to get to SF and Japanese ladies team to win a Silver in the Team event. I can also see Harimoto in Semi Finals too. XD who knows, will depend on Mizutani being in good form and pair showing good cohesion.

I think 50/50 on games happening. Japanese think over spent on 20 billion and can't see bill decreasing with Covid measures. Games can either go 3 ways

1. Cancelled
2. Inspiring, Uniting the World during tough times
3. Complete disaster with big time infections, new mutated variants and massive bill becoming most expensive games ever to be held

I'm kinda ruling out 2, hope I'm wrong
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MaLin2.0 said:

Japan will win medals in TT. Big hopes obviously ride on Mima and Harimoto. Don't think can expect much on others, not to sound rude.

​​​​​​I expect Mima to get to SF and Japanese ladies team to win a Silver in the Team event. I can also see Harimoto in Semi Finals too. XD who knows, will depend on Mizutani being in good form and pair showing good cohesion.

I think 50/50 on games happening. Japanese think over spent on 20 billion and can't see bill decreasing with Covid measures. Games can either go 3 ways

1. Cancelled
2. Inspiring, Uniting the World during tough times
3. Complete disaster with big time infections, new mutated variants and massive bill becoming most expensive games ever to be held

I'm kinda ruling out 2, hope I'm wrong
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Tempest/Comet said:

options 2 & 3 would be the same IMO, big money spent while inviting multiple opportunities of incoming contaminations. Even for a no-spectators Games, there are estimated 200 nations &12000 athletes coming in. To me, Japanese dying to inspire and unite the world just seems far fetched.
As for money, Japan lost $360 billion in the 2011Tsunami plus a $78 billion deficit in the following year, but did recover the money in time. But he country still hasn’t recovered fully from the nuclear disaster, which affects its citizens.

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Not sure how keen I would be allowing big group of athletes in from US, Brazil, Mexico, Europe in. Not sure id want to be in the same hotel with athletes from these countries either. Too much really against the games and to be honest not great deal of benefit either. Overseas travellers lost likely banned, big ticket loss, other big losses such as hotel fees and purchases tourists would make if things were under normal circumstances.

Japanese government I feel for as they are in a no win situation. Safer and logical option is to cancel but the cost already spent and to cancel surely would leave a bad taste in their mouth

MaLin2.0 said:

Japan will win medals in TT. Big hopes obviously ride on Mima and Harimoto. Don't think can expect much on others, not to sound rude.

​​​​​​I expect Mima to get to SF and Japanese ladies team to win a Silver in the Team event. I can also see Harimoto in Semi Finals too. XD who knows, will depend on Mizutani being in good form and pair showing good cohesion.

I think 50/50 on games happening. Japanese think over spent on 20 billion and can't see bill decreasing with Covid measures. Games can either go 3 ways

1. Cancelled
2. Inspiring, Uniting the World during tough times
3. Complete disaster with big time infections, new mutated variants and massive bill becoming most expensive games ever to be held

I'm kinda ruling out 2, hope I'm wrong
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I suspect they will have it and lose money by forgoing tourism. That's the only thing that makes sense in the current global climate if they don't cancel.

zeio said:

IIRC, the pair has won only 1 Open title before this. The other teams have not sent their strongest pairs as well, namely South Korea, sending Jeon/Yang over Jeon/Shin or Choi/Shin. Also, the way they eased up against Yuan/Loeuillette after a big lead is concerning.

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zeio said:

JNT: Gold medal in WT! 🤥
KNT: 😂
CNT: 🤣

What a *bleep* joke!

A repeat of the Team World Cup 2019, ONLY WORSE. Hirano did well in G2 to seize the opening after the yellow card for JJH/SYB and turned it around from 7:9 to 10:9, only to have sempai fail and pop up JJH's no-spin serve. In G3, how sempai managed to miss that FH killer is beyond me. As Lin Qiang pointed out at TWC 2019, Hirano is forced to bear the burden and hence the risks of putting in the first attack, and hopefully strong enough to finish the point, because otherwise Ishikawa couldn't keep up, let alone step up, especially on crucial points. The weakest link remains the weakest link.

Mika Baba: Perhaps it was better for Hayata/Kihara to win...

0-3?

Hehehe...

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If only JNT was daring enough to do a last minute switcheroo like CNT did by replacing Guo Yan with Ding Ning.