The athletes and their performances dazzled, but it is vital to look beneath the surface and ask questions others will not
My Olympics gone by, I miss it so. And despite the Kafkaesque bureaucracy, the hard quarantine, the endless spitting into test tubes and the constant fear of being pinged and forced to self-isolate for 14 days, I wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere but Tokyo during these past few weeks.
In some ways it felt like being present at a vast and implausible heist – 16 months of delays, doubts and dangling uncertainties, being spirited away by 16 days of astonishing sport and extraordinary stories.