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Like Rio Tokyo faces Olympic challenges too

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Brazil has pulled off a successful Olympic Games despite suffering a lack of funding, deep recession and social turmoil. Can troubled Japan do the same in four years time? Laura Frykberg finds out.

Added on the 22/08/2016 15:26:10 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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