Jay Holder shares Tokyo 2020 Olympic experience amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Episode 1 September 04, 2021 00:18:20
Jay Holder shares Tokyo 2020 Olympic experience amid COVID-19 Pandemic
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Jay Holder shares Tokyo 2020 Olympic experience amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Sep 04 2021 | 00:18:20

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Show Notes

The opening episode for the podcast's second season features Jay Holder, a 2005 graduate of SUNY Oswego who served as the deputy venue media manager at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Holder shares what the process of acclimating to a Games setting was like amid COVID-19 restrictions and a state of emergency declared for Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures.

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