Japan is still grappling with the fallout of the graft-stained and pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, serving as a warning to Paris ahead of the Games this summer in the French capital.
Cost overruns, corruption and COVID-19 all tarnished the Japanese public's memory of the Tokyo Olympics, which were held largely behind closed doors in 2021, a year later than planned.
Japan consequently dropped the idea of hosting the Winter Olympics in Sapporo because of a lack of public support.
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