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Despite questions of uncertainty still surrounding the Tokyo Games, it’s highly likely they will go on – ABC News
Despite a surge in coronavirus cases in Japan and the numbers being higher than when the Olympics was original scheduled, there is little reason to believe the…
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me since March last year whether the Tokyo Olympics were going to go ahead, I’d probably have about $93, give or take.
And my answer? “I have no idea.”
This week, with just 55 days remaining until the opening ceremony, the portents kept coming that the Games could yet be called off because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New opinion polls showed 80 per cent of the Japanese population did not want the Games.
The US government advised against non-essential…
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