The Olympics are no longer present.

So play must continue
Continuing the Games - a matter of money and prestige. The financial interests involved in the Olympic Games are immense, for both the IOC, host country, international and local sponsors, TV channels, sports federations and athletes. It's the shadow side — alongside scandals of corruption, abuse of power and local communities that are coming into the tribulation — of an event that has grown sporty and commercially large in forty years, that everything has to go.

Public money has been used to bear that cost, but local sponsors have also raised a record amount of around $3 billion. The Japanese also reimburse the stay of IOC members, who moved into the most expensive hotel suites in the Okura Tokyo Prestige Tower, up to more than 20,000 euros per night. To underline relations, IOC members at the airport should be greeted by smiling and positive staff members, as one of the guidelines states.

Athletes are abused before the games, anything for a gold medal, silver or bronze don't count. Is it worth waiving for many years, injuries, spartan lifestyle. Who knows who won the gold in archery in 2012 and 2016?. Matches are played under extreme heat 35 degrees or more. The first victim has already fallen. . You can also see the inequality among the participants, the one accustomed to the heat has a head start.

Dehydration, organ failure, eating disorders; the fight of light rowers against the kilos. Light Rowers Olympic Games open their Olympic tournament on Odaiba Island, southeast of Tokyo. This competition preceded many years of struggle with their weight. “Inside I shouted for help, but I couldn't stop.”