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What’s changed since the last Tokyo Olympics?

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

Waiting Games

What did Japan, and the world, look like the last time Tokyo held the Olympics in 1964?

— As this year, Tokyo had to wait to hold the Games. It was awarded the 1940 Olympics, but the offer was withdrawn after the Japanese invasion of China (before the 1940 Games were abandoned altogether).

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