PARIS — One year from today, thousands of Olympic athletes will board more than 160 boats on the Seine River with their countrymen and women, carrying their flags and wearing their national colors to signal not only the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics, but also what they hope is an end to the Games of the COVID era.
There is no guarantee of course that COVID is as done with us as we are with it, and there always are many other worries for Olympic organizers that have nothing to do with a global pandemic.
But there is also an overwhelming sense that Olympic luck might be turning a corner.