TOKYO 2020 is set to fall victim to the dreaded 40-year curse that KO’d the 1940 games due to WWII and hit Moscow 1980 with Cold War boycotts. Japan’s own Deputy Prime Minister Taro As…
TOKYO 2020 is set to fall victim to the dreaded 40-year curse that KO'd the 1940 games due to WWII and hit Moscow 1980 with Cold War boycotts.
Aso, who is also the Finance Minister in Japan, believes Tokyo 2020 has been hit with a curse that began in 1940 and struck again four decades later with the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games."It's the cursed Olympics - and that's a fact."Three years before WWII broke out in 1939, the Olympics were held in Berlin where the Nazi party had risen to power.
But WWII tensions spread across the globe and friction with China lead to uproar in the country for cash to be used for military purposes — leading to a strain on Japan's Olympic preparations.However, increased troubles with China made staging the games impossible and the Japanese Olympic Committee eventually caved and the 1940 Olympics were axed.The "curse" struck again in Russia 40 years after Japan cancelled its games.
The IOC and its powerful chief, Thomas Bach, first said the Games will go ahead as planned, drawing fire from athletes who say that could be a health risk.though, with an emergency IOC summit set to decide what to do next.
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