(Eugene Hoshiko | AP) A Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing staff mops the floor in front of the climbing wall in the test event of Speed Climbing in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Aomi Urban Sports Park in Tokyo, March 6, 2020. The tentacles of canceling the Tokyo Olympics — or postponing or staging it in empty venues — would reach into every corner of the globe, much like the spreading virus that now imperils the opening ceremony on July 24.
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