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‘Stronger together’ is the Olympic message one year before Tokyo Games

We’re all different. We look different. We come from different places and live in different ways. But when we all go through the same struggle, when we all contend with the same fear, when we all face the same challenge, it’s undeniable how much stronger we can be together.

The Tokyo Olympics, postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, open in one year. Like never before, the Games can bring the world together — more than 10,000 athletes from more than 200 nations.

“At the end of this dark tunnel we are all going through together, not knowing how long it is, the Olympic Flame will be a light at the end of this tunnel,” IOC President Thomas Bach wrote in March.