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The Pandemic Games get underway

The Tokyo Olympics will finally get underway this Friday, July 23, yet the excitement that had built up in previous years over the event has been almost completely diminished due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unlike other Olympic Games, there will be little to celebrate, with empty stadiums and a capital city where pandemic cases have continued to soar in recent weeks.

A slow-down

Tokyo has lost 700 million euros as a result of the absence of spectators this summer, and the decision of a number of CEOs from key sponsors to stay away from the event means that there will be less than 1,000 total guests in attendance.

As a result, it will have an entirely different atmosphere to when Tokyo last held the Olympic Games, back in 1964, when Japan reintegrated itself into the international community and which saw the complete renovation of Tokyo.

A bullet train was constructed, alongside 10,000 new buildings and five-star hotels, all in record time, for the Olympic Games that year.

‘United by Emotion’

At the start of 2020, the official Tokyo Games motto, ‘United by Emotion’, was revealed, but this catchphrase is at odds with reality, with the pandemic keeping people across the globe apart and with any previous feelings of euphoria diminished.

However, in spite of the circumstances, and although few would have complained had the Games been called off entirely, the show must go on.

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