he looked like he was going to pull a muscle. i was concerned for his well being he was so excited. i love it. coy, thank you very much. so as the olympics are under way in tokyo, china is looking to outshine japan at next year s winter games. the winter ones. cnn selena wang live in tokyo with more. reporter: well, john, these are not the olympics of japan s dreams. i ve been to few of the events it s surreal to see athletes like naomi osaka competing in nearly empty staid yups. now with more than 115 covid cases in japan linked to the olympics, and beijing hosting, the stakes for japan are immense. reporter: a year and a half into the pandemic, it s clear these ranaren t the olympics ja was hoping for. the games were supposed to be the nation s comeback, after
the nation magazine and author of the book brazil s dance with the devil, the world cup, the olympics and the struggle for democracy democracy. you re not supervised. i ap not surprised. you mentioned some of the statistics. 250,000 people it is estimated displaced by stadium construction. there is an expression in brazil that statistics are like a man s thong. they show so much but they hide the most important parts. in this case the most important parts are an economic agenda of debt displacement and the militarization of public space that allowed soccer and the world cup to be used as a neo liberal trojan horse to push through infrastructure projects people would have otherwise rejected. the difference in brazil is in 2013 millions of people took to the streets to oppose this with a rather beautiful slogan. fifa, the organization that oversees fascial soccer says we want fifa-quality staid yups.