It may be too early to determine a legacy for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but that won't stop people from trying to define it even before the Paralympics have yet to begin.
Clouds over the Tokyo Olympics this summer (July 23 to August 8) continue to grow darker amid a fresh surge in Covid cases in Japan and declining public support for the event there. What was.
Mar 16, 2021
The Olympics are indisputably the biggest sporting event in the world, but many Japanese athletes fearful of sounding selfish amid the COVID-19 pandemic and under pressure to focus on their athletic activities are facing a dilemma over how to express their concerns about participating.
Some athletes and officials, however, have broken their silence in recent weeks, expressing their honest feelings through mass media outlets as well as their own social media accounts.
In a long Twitter post in early February, two-time Olympic swimmer Yayoi Matsumoto questioned the decision by organizers to persist with the games even as so many other sporting events have been called off.