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    IT’S GAMES OVER!

    Apr 09, 2020 4 minutes
    COMPILED BY CHARLEA SIEBERHAGEN-GREY
    ‘To make a contribution to the containment of the coronavirus we agreed to postpone the Olympic Games’

    MAJOR marathons cancelled. The Monaco Grand Prix axed. The Premier League and Super Rugby suspended. It’s been one blow after the next for fans as Covid-19 wreaked havoc with sporting fixtures.

    And at the back of everyone’s minds was: what about the Olympics? For a while bosses insisted there’d be no turning back. Too much money had been spent by Japan to host the extravaganza in Tokyo – so the show would go on.

    But by the time the Olympic flame arrived from Greece to begin its tour of Japan, they’d begun to waver. Hints started

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