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Andy Rice

‘STRANGE TO SEE PEOPLE YOU KNEW BUT UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING MORE THAN A FIST BUMP BY WAY OF GREETING’

Working at Tokyo 2020 was one of the strangest experiences I’ve had, and certainly the strangest of the four Olympic Regattas at which I’ve reported. If I hadn’t been employed by World Sailing as a writer, there’s no way I’d have got there under my own steam. Three consecutive days of PCR tests (cost approx £400) before we were even allowed to get on the plane, let alone five

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