Posted on 07/03/2021 12:04:01 AM PDT by DallasBiff
With Tokyo recently being announced as the host of the 2020 Olympics we look back the last time the Games graced the Japanese capital in the first part of our new series of Olympic History.
Not too long after WWII. Interesting...
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They had Olympics back in the ‘60’s? Cool. So that’s probably when they started, right?
They had the Olympics in Greece as early as over 700 B.C. in a place called OLYMPIA.
Excellent film and a real view of past customs and places. I like that there was no fear of lengthy shots and that one of the runners going by with Mount Fuji in the background was magnificent!!!
Unmentioned, at least in the preamble, but the 1940 Olympic Games were scheduled for Tokyo, except that by 1938, with the Imperial Japan aggressions towards China and Soviet Russia, it became a game of a different sort!
A side note but a telling one. Remember who was US President in 1964 and you better understand the USA Olympic Team clothes!
Yeah and it was even with the participants in the nude!
FYI: I don't think that they needed that torch and even if they did I'll bet it was much less smokey!
imagine what the athletes from all those countries in Asia and the eastern Pacific who were devastated by the Japs 20 years earlier must be thinking as they walked in the stadium??
The first time we had LIVE coverage of the Olympics was 1968 from Mexico City.
Quite a big deal at the time. My boss even let me change (and extend) my lunch hour so I could watch the afternoon segments.
Interesting take. Seems like they were keen on showing how Japan and other parts of the world were joining the jet age and tearing down the old to replace with the new. Even in Mongolia they had “European style buildings”, at least according to one of their woman shot-putters!
The route of the torch was interesting. Lots of countries we would consider dangerous places to travel through now.
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