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“We have been cornered into a situation where we cannot even stop now. We are damned if we do, and damned if we do not,” Kaori Yamaguchi, a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee and a bronze medalist in judo in 1988, wrote in a recent editorial published by the Kyodo news agency. “The IOC also seems to think that public opinion in Japan is not important.”

A Chicago police officer looks at a vehicle with a broken rear window and surrounded by police tape that is parked in a gas station at the corner of N. Kimball Ave. at West Foster Avenue in Chicago on July 9, 2021. A person was shot in the back while driving on the 5500 block of N. Kimball Ave. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

When the Moras came to visit, they would take all of Juan Jr.’s friends out to dinner. In Florida, they introduced Kaade to Cuban coffee and food, he said. “They were the kind of people that even if someone says ‘I’m not hungry,’ they would just continue to order food to make sure you had a full belly,” he said.