Should the Games Go On?
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think that Japan should host the Olympics this summer? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm not sure if the question should or should not, but I don't think they could. |
| 0:13.0 | Yesterday in the podcast, we heard from two American athletes about how they've been managing |
| 0:18.0 | since the games were postponed last year. |
| 0:21.0 | But we also wondered how our preparations going on in the host country. |
| 0:26.0 | We are just four months away from the opening ceremony for the 30-second Olympic Games in Tokyo. |
| 0:32.0 | But the pandemic is still raging, and there's public disapproval in Japan that has been mounting. |
| 0:38.0 | So the fate of the games hang in the balance. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, CNN International Correspondent Selina Wang takes to the streets of Tokyo with the question I think on everyone's mind. |
| 0:49.0 | Should Japan go ahead with the Olympic Games this summer? |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction. |
| 1:07.0 | On the night of February 14th, I was at home lying on the couch watching TV. |
| 1:14.0 | It was about 11 p.m. Then all of a sudden, the program I was watching was interrupted with the warning |
| 1:21.0 | that said that there was going to be an earthquake coming. |
| 1:25.0 | And just about 10 seconds later, I felt like jolt, and then it started shaking, and the shake was just continuing for a long time. |
| 1:35.0 | Arthur Shin is a 57-year-old businessman. He's lived in Tokyo for most of his life. |
| 1:41.0 | Last month, the Northeastern coast of Japan was hit with a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. |
| 1:46.0 | The shocks echoed throughout the Capitol. |
| 1:49.0 | I felt it here in my own Tokyo apartment. Everything was shaking. I could feel my building swaying. It was really scary. |
| 1:57.0 | Japan's meteorological agency said the quake was actually an aftershock from the devastating 2011 Fukushima earthquake. |
| 2:05.0 | For many residents, it brought back painful memories. |
| 2:10.0 | Nearly 10 years ago, a massive earthquake struck Fukushima prefecture, which is part of the Toho-ku region. |
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