Ultimately lacking the Covid catastrophe or shutdown that many predicted, the Tokyo Olympics officially ended today in a near empty stadium with little more than a handful of athletes and a Japanese term for “thank you” on the jumbotron“Arigato,” indeed.“The Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020 were the games of hope, solidarity and peace,” said a masked I.O.C.
chief Thomas Bach in his thankfully short speech just before the flame was extinguished. Using clichés like “unprecedented” and “steadfast commitment” to describe an already delayed Games than many in Japan and around the world felt should be pushed back again as coronavirus case surged in the host city and the Delta variant struck globally, Bach struck a hackney note and received scant
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