Let the games be thin: Tokyo’s Olympic tussles
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🗓️ 24 February 2021
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Planners are in a corner. Delaying or cancelling the summer tournament looks like defeat; pressing ahead looks like a danger. We take a look at the sporting chances. Britain has decarbonised faster than any other rich country, but getting to “net zero” will be a whole lot harder. And why South Koreans have such trouble with noisy neighbours.
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| 0:36.4 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:50.1 | Britain has made big promises about decarbonizing its economy, |
| 0:54.1 | reaching net zero by 2050. It's well ahead of many other countries on getting there, |
| 0:59.7 | but that is largely down to a historical quirk. |
| 1:03.2 | We look at what lies ahead for the country to finish the job. |
| 1:07.7 | And with so much home working these days, noisy neighbors are an even greater nuisance than they |
| 1:12.9 | were before, but in South Korea complaints about them are a national obsession. |
| 1:18.4 | There's even a government agency dedicated to handling them. |
| 1:28.4 | First up though. |
| 1:33.1 | Today, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, |
| 1:37.6 | will meet remotely to discuss the future of the summer Olympics. |
| 1:41.4 | The Tokyo Games are scheduled to begin on July 23rd, |
| 1:45.1 | having been delayed by a year because of the pandemic. |
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