gail emms is a former olympic silver medalist in badminton and in reading also in the u.k. simon clarke is associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading welcome to the program then let me start with you today i want to talk 1st about the tokyo olympics why is the prime minister in japan insisting that the olympics will go on what are the potential financial costs and the political costs at play if the olympics were to be canceled. well 1st of all thank you for having me the potential costs of not holding the olympics as schedule look the significant surge and which has spent billions new infrastructure in terms of the news that he is preparing to receive tens of thousands of athletes coaches specials and of course fans this was supposed to be the centerpiece of what has been a massive effort over the last decade to really get the country's tourism infrastructure into gear to create these new sports facilities to modernize a lot of things so to not have the olympics happen it would be a significant blow to the economy and to the nation's morale ga