EDITORIAL. The country wanted to make the Olympic Games the showcase of its ambitions for the XXIe century, but it is overtaken by its old dilemmas.
By Nicolas Baverez
Published on 05/26/2021 at 7:02 p.m.
– Modified 05/27/2021 at 8:43 am
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Pierre de Coubertin underlined that “sport will seek fear in order to dominate it, fatigue in order to triumph over it, difficulty in overcoming it”. The formula has never seemed more correct eight weeks before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, which for the time being entirely under the sign of fear, fatigue and difficulty.
In 1964, the Games held in Tokyo symbolized the modernization of Japan and its reintegration into the community of nations. In 2020, almost ten years after the terrible disaster of Fukushima, they were to embody the reconstruction of the country …
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