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The Inquiry: Are the Tokyo Olympic games in trouble?

Are the Tokyo Olympic games in trouble?

24/06/2021 GMT

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Tanya Beckett asks if Japan can pull off the greatest show on earth during a pandemic?

A year behind schedule and costing many billions of dollars, Tanya Beckett asks if Japan can pull off the greatest show on earth during a pandemic?

In just under a month’s time Japan’s capital city Tokyo will host the 32nd Olympic Games. 

They were due to take place last year but were delayed because of the pandemic. 

But even 12 months later the Japanese public is far from enthused at the prospect of thousands of athletes and their entourages turning up just as the country is experiencing a fourth wave of the coronavirus.

So, Tanya Beckett asks if Japan can pull off the greatest show on earth during a pandemic?

Produced by Soila Apparicio and Rob Cave.


(People pose next to the Olympic Rings in Tokyo, Japan, March 2020. Credit: Carl Court/ Getty Images)

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