Tokyo Olympics athletics test held inside empty National Stadium

Roughly 420 track-and-field athletes went through their paces Sunday inside an empty National Stadium, where COVID-19 countermeasures were in place with nine of the athletes coming from overseas.Thirty-three events -- 16 for men and 17 for women -- went ahead at the newly built Tokyo Olympics main venue, despite the cloud which now hangs over the games' prospects due to a state of emergency in Japan's capital through the end of this month.A group of around 100 people outside the venue protested holding the Tokyo Olympics. They demanded peoples' lives be given a higher priority than the Olym…READ FULL ARTICLE