15 Sordid Stories About The Building of Sports Stadiums

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The “Oh Come ON” Evictions of the Tokyo Olympics

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Goshdarnit, we just can’t help ourselves with the Olympics. The 2020 2021 Tokyo Olympics had to—you’re not going to believe this—evict a whole bunch of people to build new stadiums. Among those evicted were Kohei and Yasuko Jinno, senior citizens who had already been evicted for the 1964 Olympics. We’re not going to claim to have the answers, but when two people get evicted twice for the same silly sports spectacle, the system ain’t working. 

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