A few weeks before the start of the Tokyo Games, Japan's Olympic committee backed off an earlier target of winning 30 gold medals due to the disruption caused by COVID-19.
Japan's athletes apparently did not get the memo.
These Olympics are just over a week old and Japan has already set a national record for gold medals won at a Summer Games — and there could be more on the horizon.
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