Then COVID-19 shut down the world, and the Olympics were delayed a year.
That was supposed to be enough time to put the pandemic in the past, and celebrate a global comeback from the deadly virus, much as the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City brought the world together for the first time after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States.
But that s not happening as the new, more contagious delta variant of the virus that first struck more than a year and half ago rages through Japan and much of the rest of the world, raising new questions about the impact of Tokyo s legacy on the bid to bring the Olympics back to Utah, again and again.
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