As the Tokyo Games begin, the stakes could not be higher for Japan — and the Olympics themselves
- Written by: Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
Martin Meissner/APHistory shows there nothing in sport quite like an Olympics. Equally, there is nothing in Olympic history quite like what is happening now in Tokyo at the most expensive — and likely the most fraught — summer games of all time.
When Tokyo bid for the games a decade ago, many of the political elite saw the Olympics as...
