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With the Tokyo Olympics in full swing, it's all eyes in the sporting world on Japan right now.
Reporter Marg. Bruineman looks back on her first job as a teenager at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
Also, reporter Shawn Gibson says the time change between Barrie and Tokyo makes it hard to watch many of the events this year, but he clearly remembers the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, which put Donovan Bailey and Canada firmly on the sporting map.
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And if you missed it, here's what happened last week:
Last week, reporter Nathan Taylor talked to Peterborough native and former Barrie bartender Michael Martyn about his new job as general manager at the historic Orillia Opera House, "a great-sounding room" that he says he has plenty of plans for in the near future.
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