The very first question I had for sports writer Henry Bushnell was are the summer Olympics

going to happen?

Yes, tentatively.

Henry writes for Yahoo Sports.

That means right now he is drumming his fingers, seeing if he should buy a ticket to Japan.

I think most people are assuming that they will indeed happen despite a lot of pushback

but given everything that is going on in the world, given everything that is going on specifically

in Japan, given everything that has happened over the past year and specifically last March

when the Olympics were postponed, there is still a lot of unease throughout the Olympic

world.

I think it is fair to say.

I don't think anybody can be 100% sure.

One thing is certain, if they happen, the Olympics are going to be weird.

They are supposed to start July 23rd of this year, 2021.

But the games are still going to be called the 2020 Olympics.

This is a decision that seems to have been made primarily for merchandising reasons.

After Olympics organizers postponed last year's games due to the coronavirus.

The figure, we are just going to put all of those t-shirts and everything and mascots

and stuffed animals and stuff in warehouses for a year and roll it back out with the Tokyo

2020 name.

So you are telling me this is a business decision.

Definitely a business decision.

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