Tokyo Olympics organizers have finally announced the games will be held without spectators and the news has shattered the dreams of millions of people including Japanese Kazunori Takishima who was all set to achieve a world record.
The Tokyo resident had a plan worth $40,000 to spectate all Olympic Games and had bought 100 Tokyo 2020 tickets.
The man had been saving and scheming for years to bring off his plan of attending the most Olympic events ever.
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The news came in as a strike for him and he felt completely devasted after his dream shattered.
“I stayed up until three in the morning with my mind completely blank, I was just really stunned by the news. I wish I had been able to cry. That would have helped relieve my stress”, he said.
Kazunori owns a real estate office and for most of his life, he had no interest in sports.
The man informed that he, by chance, attended the 2006 Torino Games where he was mesmerized by the Japanese skater Shizuka Arakawa, who was a gold medalist that year.
Since then, Kazunori started taking interest in the Olympics and attended nearly all Summer and Winter Games.
“I gain so many things when I attend Olympic events”, Takishima told.
Once in 2016, he walked out of a stadium, collapsed on the grass, and slept for an hour as he was sleep-deprived in a strive to attend all Summer and Winter Sports events.
As per details, the sports enthusiast has so far attended 106 ticketed Olympic competitions and had a plan to witness 28 events at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Amid the surging coronavirus cases in Japan, the organizers have decided to let the event without spectators which shattered his dream of surpassing the previous records.