Sardines for breakfast, hypothermia rescues: The story of the cash-strapped post-Pandemic Olympics of 1920
8 July 2021 9:46am Since the global pandemic began, debate has raged over whether Tokyo should go ahead with the Olympic Games, now set to open on 23 July. The same heated debates were heard the last time an Olympic Games were staged following a global pandemic – the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) strongly believed the Olympics would help bring the world back together – not just after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic that killed at least 50 million people, but also the tumult of the first world war. Only six months after the armistice that e...
Source: neoskosmos.com
