The Olympics are coming back to Tokyo (Japan). Fifty-six years have passed since the metropolis last hosted the Games of the XVIII Olympiad with a successful medal count for the Slovak Olympians, at that time as representatives of Czechoslovakia. Although the first Tokyo Olympics were planned to take place as early as 1940, after Japan attacked China, the situation changed and Finland was selected as the host country. However, the plans for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad were finally thwarted by the war and they did not take place at all. Tokyo also failed in their bids to...
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