Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics winds to a nuanced end
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2021-08-08 06:30
Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics winds to a nuanced end
TOKYO (AP) — It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ends with a typhoon and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything.The Tokyo Olympics, christened with '2020' but held in mid-2021 after being interrupted for a year by the coronavirus, glided to their end Sunday night as an often surreal mixed bag for Japan and for the world. Held in the middle of a resurging pandemic, rejected by many Japanese and plagued by months of administrative problems, these Games presented logistical and medical obstacles like no other, offered up serious conversations about mental health — and, when it came to sport, delivered both triumphs and a few surprising shortfalls.

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