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Tokyo 2020: Former IOC executive says Games were 'an absolute miracle' / V000_9KR2VJ
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In an interview with AFP, Michael Payne, the former head of marketing at the IOC, says he believed these unusual Games had provided "optimism and hope for the future".
Payne, who in nearly two decades at the IOC was credited with transforming its finances through sponsorship, says he believed the IOC "held its nerve".
"It was an absolute miracle they happened," says Payne. "A miracle the Japanese pulled it off, a miracle the IOC got all the athletes here and stage a Games in the midst of a pandemic giving optimism and hope for the future." SOUNDBITES of Michael Payne AND FILE IMAGES of Tokyo atmosphere during the Olympics