Sign up for our free daily Olympics newsletter: Very Olympic Today. You'll catch up on the top stories, smaller events, things you may have missed while you were sleeping and links to the best writing from SI’s reporters on the ground in Tokyo.
TOKYO — The Tatsumi Water Polo Centre is located down the street from its more celebrated aquatic cousin, where famous swimmers race each other in the pool and Katie Ledecky mines for gold. To arrive at water polo here, the fortunate few who can enter a mostly empty stadium must ride a bus or taxi, slide past security, walk away from the swimming, navigate a byzantine maze of stairs and corridors, then climb roughly 742 flights of stairs.