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a new restriction on the upcoming tokyo
summer olympics
that's where we start the week here on
CNN 10. I'm, Carl Azuz. Thank you for
watching
the coronavirus pandemic has caused a
lot of problems for these games
they're still called the tokyo 2020
olympics but while they were originally
scheduled to start on july 24th of last
year
they've been postponed until july 23rd
of this summer
with the paralympics scheduled to begin
on august 24th
the olympic organizing committee just
announced over the weekend that
spectators from other countries will not
be allowed
people who already bought tickets will
get their money back and it's not clear
yet how many people from japan will be
able to attend the games
the reason for the new restriction
according to the international olympic
and paralympic committees
is that the international covid
situation is still very challenging
and that international travel is still
severely restricted
organizers say the decision will help
keep the game safe and secure
but it could hurt japan economically
without the visits and spending by
international tourists that usually
benefit olympic hosts
the decision to delay the games has
already taken a toll on some athletes
though others are grateful for the extra
training time
olympic fencer rio miyake took up a new
job last year
delivering food for ubereats to make
extra cash and stay in shape during the
pandemic
his training stopped for several months
after tokyo announced the postponement
of the olympics
he sensed resumed practice but the
physical and mental challenges remain
it's like running a full marathon for
four years adding another year is like
we have to keep on running before
reaching the goal
with the olympic games just months away
it's still unclear how japan plans to
hold the game safely
while the japanese government has vowed
the games will go ahead
a poll in january by public broadcaster
nhk
found that 77 percent of people in japan
think the games should be
canceled or further postponed i think
it's quite risky to hold the olympics in
japan at this stage
but i think all athletes understand that
safety is the first priority
and i don't think there are any athletes
who want to compete in the olympics no
matter what at stake are tens of
billions of dollars and japan's national
pride
but for athletes a lifetime of
dedication hangs in balance
as does their mental well-being and
we've started to see
more and more olympic athletes and
aspiring olympic athletes
coming through our support system and
having to put yourself
through not only the level of training
that these athletes
are working at six seven days a week but
also to stay
as mentally hungry and driven and trying
to reach a goal that
isn't yet actually finalized and fixed
at a set date and time
is really really tough and eventually
that will take its toll
on the mental health of these of these
olympians
but sport climber akio noguchi was happy
to have an extra year of practice
she was planning to retire after the
tokyo 2020 games
when sport climbing was supposed to make
its olympic debut
she's pushed back her retirement by one
year in order to make the olympics the
last competition of her career
ten-second trivia which of these nations
is estimated to have the highest
literacy rate
china slovenia malta or south africa
the u.s central intelligence agency
estimates that slovenia has the highest
literacy rate on this list
at 99.7 percent
when covid hit so many charities and
non-profit organizations found
themselves in the same boat
how do they continue helping people when
in-person interactions are limited
like a lot of schools out there a group
called eye to eye went virtual
that way it could keep connecting
students who have learning disabilities
or students who learn differently
with mentors who share their struggles
the organization's founder david flink
is a cnn hero
what people think about me it's like
that i can't talk right
or like i'm dumb
you know i'm just unique in my own ways
everybody is unique in their own ways if
you think about it
i remember fondly really loving
school and that
feeling ended probably first or second
grade
i didn't know that i have dyslexia i
didn't know but i had adhd
and i could either be the dumb kid or i
could be the bad kid
instead of sitting there and feeling
dumb i just started acting out
and they would say dave we think it
would be
best for you and all of us
if you went to the hallway to finish
that assignment
at one point literally my desk was moved
to the hallway
i had this message sent to me that i
didn't belong in the classroom
but there was a guy in the school
cleaned the floors
and the timing of me being outside the
classroom and him
like cleaning the hallway there was a
lot of time together
when jim the janitor just stopped to
talk to me
it was probably the most human
experience i can remember
at that point in my life it was just a
kind person
that saved me
i felt like people had invested in me
despite challenges i made it
i went on to columbia to get a graduate
degree in
education because i wanted to help make
school better for kids i struggle a ton
with spelling
do you have any of that or is that not
yeah
50 students in high school if you have a
learning disability
end up in the juvenile justice system
where do we want our students to end up
in prison or contributing members of
societyi had a responsibility to go give back
today's project is the utility belt
so we're going to be thinking of things
that help us in the classroom and
out of the classroom check out some art
supplies itae
is a national program that matches
college and high school students who
haveall types of learning disabilities with
young people of all types of learning
disabilities
we have 150 chapters in 23 states now
i'm drawing i'm talking about drawing
you just know that about yourself that's
greateye-to-eye provides a safe space that's
constructed around what's right with
kids
so they can talk about their experiences
so you get distracted easily what else
gets in your way or it's tough for you
to overcome we use art
as a way to help facilitate that
conversation
middle school is really where kids they
have the maturity
to say hey this is how my brain works
and i can ask for that thing
okay so our goal is to get to the moon
what's like a goal you have in real life
i definitely click more with the girls
in the room that are a little bit
reserved and shy you could do it like
thisand have the thing like this i like that
idea learning differences
manifest in different ways but for me i
was definitely really like ashamed of it
and that kind of led to just me being
super
self-conscious and shy
i like see that in those girls a little
bit they're not
the ones to volunteer to present first
ever but towards the end they're
dragging me up to the front of the room
to present with them
so it's nice to see that i love it when
i heartheir kids who are struggling
academically and now their grades are
going up
but when i hear that because they were
an eye to eye they now
understand somebody else's experience
better who's different than them
this is what we need in america we have
to love each other across our difference
what about social studies do you like
you know all the presidents that's like
a superpower
something is going very right in the
school
my moment that i am wishing for is when
the problem
of stigmatizing kids because they learn
differently goes away
i want them to know that their brains
are beautiful i want them to leave
feeling like
they know how to ask for what they need
and that they can do it and that's what
we give them
danny griffiths is a surfer who lost his
favorite surfboard in 2017
at the time he was on a monstrous wave
near the australian island of tasmania
he had to jump off as the wave closed
down and despite looking for hours his
groupnever found the board a year and a half
later two fishermen
picked up the surfboard in australian
waters about 1700 miles away
from where griffiths lost it they held
onto it and they recently returned it to
griffiths after word finally reached him
that his long-lost board was rescued at
sea
well that's our wrap on current events
it's amazing how they're shaped by time
and tide as we drift around the globe
trying to keep you on the crest of
everything we've got on deck from nose
to tail
hopefully you didn't find anything too
boarding because surf's back up tomorrow
and we hope you'll hang cnn 10 with us
again then
west caldwell high school is in lenoir
north carolina
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I'm Carl Azuz