Eat, Sleep, Play: First Team to Arrive in Japan Finds a Constricted Olympics

TOKYO — The Australian softball players who arrived in Japan this week for the last stage of their training before the Tokyo Olympics have spent most of their lives trying to reach the world’s pre-eminent sporting event.

Now they will experience much of their Olympic moment confined to small hotel rooms.

The Australian women are the first team to touch down in the host country before the Games, which open in seven weeks. Their constricted arrival offers a preview of an Olympics like no other, held as much of the globe remains in the clutches of a deadly pandemic.

There are daily PCR tests. The players are confined to three floors of their hotel in Ota City, about two and a half hours from…