The Olympics are experiencing a "setback" again, as sports officials are discussing whether to cancel or postpone them. It is reported that the games were boycotted twice, the first in 1940 due to World War II, and the other in 1980 during the Cold War.
Although the Japanese government insists that the organization of the Olympic Games this year will go ahead, it is studying plans to host the games without an audience or postpone them for a year or two due to the emerging virus crisis. According to the British newspaper "The Sun", the possibility of canceling the Olympic Games is familiar to the country had to cancel the games in 1940 because of the World War.
Japanese officials believe that Tokyo 2020 suffered a "curse", which began in 1940 and returned again after four decades of boycotting the Moscow Games of 1980. It is a problem that occurs every 40 years.
The games, held in Berlin during the World War, were boycotted because western countries like the United States questioned the intentions of the Nazi regime; but 49 countries participated, and Adolf Hitler used the occasion for propaganda.
Germany proved that it had risen from the defeat of World War I and had succeeded in organizing the games, but at a time when it allowed the Nazis to flourish, which would have far-reaching repercussions for the sports world.