Opinion | Edgeofsports: The Olympics always leave a mark on the host city. In Tokyo, it could signal a very dangerous turning point, a turn toward cynicism in regard to public health. - MSNBCDaily
to report on pre-Olympic planning in the summer of 2019, many daunting obstacles and challenges were apparent even before the emergence of the pandemic in the months ahead. There was consternation among locals about cost overruns, displacement and the presence of a more militarized security system than modern Tokyo has ever been accustomed to.I met elderly people being displaced from their homes for the Games who had also been displaced the.
Now that the dust is clearing from the Games, it must be acknowledged that somehow — without spectators, with the specter of Covid-19, with volunteers quitting by the thousands, with tremendous resistance from locals — they pulled it off. Yet pulling it off has come with a price.
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