What Will the Tokyo Olympics Legacy Be?

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo have been described as the “strangest” or “weirdest” in Olympic history. The pandemic delayed the games for a year and limited how the world’s biggest sporting tournament could play out--no spectators, lots of covered faces, social distancing and players isolated from others. The games also roused a plethora of debates ranging from questions over player uniforms to questions about identity to whether they should have been held at all in a country with low coronavirus vaccination rates. In this hour of Forum, we look back at the Tokyo Olympics and explore the triumphs, and challenges of putting on the games in the middle of a pandemic and also dive into California’s influence on the games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.8	Sunday's closing ceremonies at the Tokyo Olympics capped off what has been described as the strangest and loneliest games so far,
1:09.0	held in the middle of a global pandemic.
1:11.6	As always, it was the athletes who brought the magic, meaning, and inspiration.
1:15.6	In this hour, we'll look back at the games just passed, the triumphs, the tensions,
1:20.6	and with the Paralympics in less than two weeks,
1:23.6	whether the International Olympic Committee will begin to give athletes their respect they truly deserve.
1:30.3	Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. What has been a defining feature of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for you?
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