Olympic Dreams Have Been Shot Down In Tokyo's Ghost Town... But The Spirit Lives On

Let's get it right, Tokyo 2020 is going ahead, in 2021, purely for commercial reasons.

- Andy Dunn

Somehow, it was decided the pandemic simply could not be allowed to take an Olympic torch to billions of pounds.

And so, the Games go on and today’s opening ceremony will take place in a city that should be alive with friendship but will instead be frozen with fear.

One of the world’s most vibrant cities turned into a ghost town.

But just because the staging of Tokyo 2020 goes against the judgment of so many and against the wishes of the Japanese public, the achievement of every single athlete in simply being there should never be demeaned.

Forget the wrangling and ramifications for a couple of weeks, now is the time for the participants to take center stage.