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Tokyo holds 1-day gym meet to show Olympics may be possible
Read full article: Tokyo holds 1-day gym meet to show Olympics may be possibleAudience members cheer for Wataru Tanigawa of Japan as he competes in the rings during an international gymnastics meet in Tokyo on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)TOKYO โ The good news for the Tokyo Olympics is that Japan on Sunday held a one-day exhibition gymnastics meet in front of several thousand fans with 22 athletes participating from Russia, China, and the United States. The non-Japanese entered after a 14-day quarantine at home and were largely kept penned up in their Tokyo hotel in strict isolation. The event is the latest โ a Japanese baseball stadium was filled to capacity last week โ intended to show that the postponed Tokyo Olympics can open in just under nine months. Japan is officially spending $12.6 billion to organize the Olympics, although a government audit last year said it was twice that much.