What a week this was going to be in the sports world. In an alternate universe, thousands would already be gathering in Tokyo in anticipation of Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The airports around Tokyo would be bustling, the streets packed, the air filled with anticipation. People from around the globe would be coming together to celebrate the largest regularly scheduled peacetime gathering of the world.
Never mind. On March 24, under tremendous pressure from national Olympic committees and international sports federations in the midst of the global pandemic, the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Games until 2021, fingers crossed.