Opinion: The show must go on By Joel Zinberg - InsideSources.com COVID-19 cases are rising, vaccinations are low, and most of the host country wants to cancel the event. Yet, the Games should go on. The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics were delayed until July 23, 2021, due to the pandemic. The rescheduled Games face continued headwinds. More than 80 percent of Japanese, fearing a super-spreader event, want the Olympics canceled. Only 15 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. The country had a surge in cases during May that subsided, but small upticks in new cases in the Tokyo area — approximately 900 new cases per day in a city of 10 million — have prompted Japanese authorities to declare a state of emergency.