Olympics Watch

Statement: “There is no place for the Olympics in Fukushima”

March 18, 2020

We refuse to recognize this “fake recovery” that conceals the real damage and ignores the victims who are still suffering. We cannot accept these “Recovery Olympics,” which use sports as a tool to deceive the world’s athletes. […]

Two Years Later, Looking for the 2018 Olympics Legacy

February 26, 2020

They have profited even as local finances are in crisis, they have extracted value from land even as a protected forest was irreversibly destroyed, and they have won reelection campaigns on a discourse touting “regional development,” even as the Olympics project created little benefit for the public. […]

Hangorin no Kai Condemn Tokyo Police for Targeting Anti-Olympics Organizer

February 21, 2020

2020 is a Sinister Year for Homeless People in Tokyo: Why the Olympics are to Blame

February 17, 2020

NOlympics Anywhere: A Joint Statement in Solidarity

August 9, 2019

RioOnWatch: ‘5 Lessons in Olympic Resistance’

April 26, 2019

Sociologist Adam Talbot published “5 Lessons in Olympic Resistance from Rio” on RioOnWatch on April 19, 2019. See RioOnWatch for the full article in English, Portuguese, French, and Japanese. “From as early as 1932, local social [...]

Strategic Alternative Media at the Rio 2016 Olympics

February 19, 2019

Given that A) Olympics organizers consistently push the notion that the Games are good for cities, countries, and the international community, and B) evidence suggests mainstream media coverage has a tendency to celebrate the Olympic event, what are the possibilities for contesting official and celebratory media narratives about the Olympic Games? […]