Five days before Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach decided to postpone the Tokyo Olympics 2020 by one year because of COVID-19 pandemic, Japan’s deputy PM Taro Aso had sensed it right saying that 40-year Olympic curse loomed large over Japan.
History explains it better about this curse struck the Olympics at regular intervals of 40 years; in 1940 (Japan) and 1980 (Russia, the erstwhile USSR).
In 1940, Japan had to cancel the Summer and Winter Olympics due to World War-II as the next Summer Olympics happened eight years later in London in 1948, and Japan had to wait for 24 years to host the Games again in 1964. Read more...
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