TOKYO — Five years after Rio, the "We Are Not Responsible for Your Valuables" Olympics, we present Tokyo's "Circa 2020, By the Way You Can't Do That" Games.
There will be a lot of drama and beauty for athletes and viewers over the next three weeks. For a writer from Minnesota sitting on a bus in a parking lot in Tokyo, you can only hope that this moment wasn't defining:
The Olympics representative stood at the front of a bus packed with journalists. Calling himself "An honest man," he admitted that he had been stalling, hoping for taxis to arrive, by reciting Tokyo trivia.