FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Brasileiro Championship - Gremio v Fortaleza - Arena do Gremio, Porto Alegre, Brazil - September 13, 2020 General view of staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) inside the stadium before the match following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) REUTERS/Diego Vara
LONDON (Reuters) - When Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee, claimed defiantly in February that the greatest show on earth would go ahead in spite of a looming pandemic few realised what wishful thinking that was.
Weeks later, with the novel coronavirus engulfing the planet, the mighty Olympic juggernaut was stopped in its tracks and the sporting calendar disintegrated.
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