Still in play: Japan's Olympic dream burns on

Organizers hinge large-scale summer success on small-scale tests in fall

20201119 four-nation gymnastics meet

Athletes attend the opening ceremony of a four-nation gymnastics meet in Tokyo on Nov. 8. © Reuters

FRANCESCA REGALADO and RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- For a few tense hours, it looked like Tokyo 2020's first trial event that included foreign athletes would be crippled by a homegrown COVID case: Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura had tested positive for the coronavirus on Oct. 28, a week into his quarantine with seven other Japanese gymnasts.

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