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The Tokyo Games Will Go on

A growing chorus is calling for the long-awaited Tokyo Olympics to be canceled, even though the facts on the ground leave Japanese authorities with no sound reason to do so. The only thing that will stop the event now is a no-show by all of the athletes themselves.

LONDON – Having been postponed from 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympic Games are approaching their opening on July 23 amid a chorus of doom. Japanese and foreigners alike are predicting, or even outright demanding, the event’s cancellation.

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