Let's all stop with the radiation jokes. Calgary has more background radiation going on than Tokyo. As long as they don't run the marathon a couple of hundred miles up north through the puddles on the reactor grounds the radiation fear is (as always) misunderstood and exaggerated.
Interesting thing for me personally - I was in my last year of high school for the Calgary Olympics (had a blast) and my daughter will be in her last year of high school here when Tokyo comes around.
Really keen to see the development that takes place in the city of over the next few years. With people really behind the Olympics getting the bid has immediately knocked out a lot of the pessimism that's been present over the past few years. That, and I think the games will go over well - it's a smart plan in that they're simply going to be utilization current infrastructure (trains and transport) in a compact area of the city.
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