TOKYO – It was all about the names on Sunday at the Olympics.
Chase Kalisz. The American swimmer who the gold medal in the men’s 400 individual.
Horigome Yuto. The Japanese skateboarder who won the gold medal in the street competition.
And Nepartak. The country-less brute.
Not even Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel are big enough names to stop him.
Nepartak, originally the name of a famous Kosrae warrior, is a tropical storm that on day 2 of the Tokyo Games helped elevate weather forecasting into an Olympic sport.