Tokyo 2020: Lucky few to spectate Olympic football
By AFP
26 July 2021 |
7:08 am
Olympic fans queue in Sendai (north-east Japan) to hop on buses that will take them to Miyagi Stadium. Female football teams from the Netherlands and Brazil will be among the happy few to have spectators as the Miyagi prefecture decided not to ban them.
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