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People protesting in front of the State Guest House in Tokyo against the Tokyo Olympics Source: AAP

Stadiums, aquatic centres and velodromes are sitting empty in Tokyo and new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 threaten to derail ‘the Greatest Show on Earth.’

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Stadiums, aquatic centres and velodromes are sitting empty in Tokyo and new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 threaten to derail ‘the Greatest Show on Earth.’

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