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Topic: Tokyo 2020

This Feb. 2, 2017 photo shows Maracana stadium's dry playing field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium was renovated for the 2014 World Cup at a cost of about $500 million, and largely abandoned after the Olympics and Paralympics, then hit by vandals who ripped out thousands of seats and stole televisions. (AP Photo/Mario Lobao) (AP)

An Olympic ghost town

Stephen Wade
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Skateboarding in 2020 Olympics

Neftalie Williams - The Conversation
Fireworks go off after the Olympic flame was extinguished during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP/David Goldman)

Bring the games back to Greece

Jonathan Zimmerman
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