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Olympic Games will really be one of a kind

Olympic Marathon champion and World Record holder Eliud Kipchoge in action during the NN Mission Marathon in Enschede, the Netherlands on Sunday, April 18, 2021. [Standard Sports]

It’s an Olympics like no other — and the Tokyo Games are surely that — but this is an event that has persevered through wars, boycotts and now a pandemic over its 125-year modern history.

But with no fans permitted in Japan, foreign or local, the Tokyo Olympics have the distinction of being the first Games without spectators.

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