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I'm Kim.

It's Monday, August 9, 2021, and we begin with the Olympic hype now moving from Tokyo

to Paris 2024.

Thousands of people gathered in the French capital yesterday to mark the official handover

of the summer games.

They danced at the foot of the Eiffel Tower while fighter planes lit up the sky with the

blue, white, and red colors of the French flag.

Half a world away, Japan quietly brought down the curtain on the pandemic plagued 2020

event.

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