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After quiet Olympics, Japan seeks a sporting celebration at Asian Games
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic robbed Tokyo of the Olympic party it hoped for, Japan will welcome fans to a major multi-sport event when the 20th Asian Games open in Nagoya on Saturday. Japan’s third Asian Games, and first since Hiroshima 1994, gives the nation a chance to restore some of the communal sporting experience lost at the COVID-delayed Olympics, when health restrictions barred spectators from almost all events. Yet the mood may not quite match the enthusiasm Japan had envisaged for the Olympics. Public interest in the Aichi-Nagoya Games, based in Japan’s industrial heartla...
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