'Belittling human lives'- how pandemic pushed Olympic volunteer to quit


Japanese college student Jun Hatakeyama, 21, during an interview with REUTERS. via REUTERS TV

TOKYO (Reuters) - Jun Hatakeyama applied to be an Olympic volunteer, filled with excitement that he could witness something greater than the Tokyo Games previously held in 1964.

But what he saw instead were mounting problems, including a plagiarism controversy over the Olympic logo and rising construction costs for Olympic venues.

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