The race walk in Tokyo was fitting, because the Cary Grant movie "Walk, Don't Run" a 1964 Tokyo Olympics-based retelling of the 1943 Washington DC-based wartime film "The More the Merrier" released in 1966, was based on the sport of race walking. The 50km race walk (taken off the Olympic schedule after 2021 for "gender equity") was race walking's blue riband event, five miles longer than the king of running distances that I've done 20 times.
(The More the Merrier was based around WWII housing shortages in 1943; Walk, Don't Run, which is not a remake but is a Tokyo 1964-based retelling of the story based on racewalking.)
There are likely as many people dying daily today from Covid as there were dying from Covid during the Tokyo Olympics. The only difference... They aren’t publishing the daily death count... If they published a daily worldwide death count from accidents and any other disease... The ticker would be moving faster than that Covid ticker... They just don’t bother... It was a complete con.