Tokyo 2021 is golden chance to close Big Sport circus and give the Olympics back | Barney Ronay

Games officials have the power to purge profiteering from elite competition and rewrite how we watch and enjoy sport

Citius. Altius. Cancelled by a bat virus. In the end the decision to postpone the Olympic Games came as no surprise to anyone. Tokyo 2020 had struggled on manfully, like the last Japanese soldier still fighting the second world war from inside a small Pacific island copse in 1974. But there was never any doubt which way this was heading.

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