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The Tokyo Olympics are finally underway, but man, has it been a rocky ride with COVID infections rising, corporations pulling out, the Japanese public unenthusiastic, and even now a bad Holocaust joke in the mix.

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Welcome to the views room. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the Financial Commentary

Wing of Reuters News, coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland, this week. Well, let the games begin.

The Tokyo Olympics are set to kick off with an opening ceremony on Friday and last for the next

couple of weeks. But man, has it been a rocky road so far? Remember, these are the 2020

games rescheduled once because of COVID a year ago, and they've been plagued by lots of

problems. Just this week, the organizers fired the opening ceremony director after reports emerged

of a past joke he had made about the Holocaust.

That comes on top of rising infections among athletes and a decision to close the games to

spectators.

None of that sat well with corporations and other supporters of the games, as Pete Sweeney,

our Olympics Maven in Asia and I discussed. It also generally deflates any enthusiasm there might

still have been among the Japanese public for the games. It now looks like former Prime

Minister Shenzhou Abe, a strong advocate of the games, won't even be in attendance.

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