Olympics provide an unrealized opportunity to improve global health Given the increased interest in sports and exercise around the Olympics underway in Tokyo, events such as the Summer Games represent an unrealized opportunity to improve global health, finds a new Lancet study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. The Olympics and other mass sporting events are a missed opportunity to promote population-level health and physical activity changes around the world. Our challenge is translating the enthusiasm about the games into at-scale sustainable public health programs." Rodrigo Reis, professor at the Brown School and associate dean for public health