Much as the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers want to believe conditions will be better in four months, that it will still be possible to hold the Tokyo Games this summer, that idea has very quickly become untenable.
On Tuesday, the IOC asked athletes to continue preparing “as best they can” amid a pandemic as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak. But how, exactly, with self-quarantines and shelter-in-home measures becoming increasingly common and anti-doping procedures impractical at best and irresponsible at worst? More specifically, where, as university athletic facilities, public gyms and even national training centers shut down?