{"id":6252,"date":"2020-02-28T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2020-02-28T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:02:05","slug":"tokyo-olympics-odds-on-to-be-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/media-journalism\/tokyo-olympics-odds-on-to-be-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics odds-on to be cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing Coronavirus epidemic means the Olympic Games is in danger of being cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics are due to take place later this year in Tokyo, Japan &#8211; starting in late July.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ongoing Coronavirus crisis means there is now a real chance that the Olympics could be cancelled for the first time since 1944 when World War 2 meant they could not go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Now Japan &#8211; which has had more than 200 confirmed victims &#8211; has taken the decision to close all their public schools in March, in a bid to curtail the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>But with less than 150 days to the opening ceremony, there is now a real question mark over whether they can go ahead or not.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmakers now believe that the Olympics will be cancelled, it is 4\/7 &#8211; 60% probability that we don&#8217;t see the Olympics this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Odds on if the Tokyo Olympics take place<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>No &#8211; 4\/7<br \/>\nYes &#8211; 11\/10<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><strong>Odds and stats accurate at time of writing\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Peter Watton is available for further comment or one-on-one interviews on this subject or anything connected with a betting market \u2013 for more information please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:press@oddsmonkey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press@oddsmonkey.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You can also check out all our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest Press Releases\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which you are free to use<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gmail-alignnone gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-2792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-768x306.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing Coronavirus epidemic means the Olympic Games is in danger of being cancelled. The Olympics are due to take place later this year in Tokyo, Japan &#8211; starting in late July. However, the ongoing Coronavirus crisis means there is now a real chance that the Olympics could be cancelled for the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5046,6438,74,1640,6436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-media-journalism","category-news-events","category-press-release","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Tokyo Olympics 2020: Cancellation Odds Rise<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the Coronavirus crisis escalating, the chances of the Tokyo Olympics being cancelled are now at 60%. 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