Without the crowd to set the stage, it’s clearly not the same
Sure, it’s a denser, cleaner and more like The Matrix. But like Cleveland, it’s another place where no one walks around outside.
It goes without saying that no one should host an Olympics, in the same way no one should hold someone else’s wedding in your house. No friendship, no matter how beautiful and special, is worth that much hassle. ‘We are amazing’. That’s the message. In a perfect world - Barcelona ’92, Lillehammer ’94, Vancouver ’10 - everyone receives it.But it’s hard to think of another Games that has failed so miserably to impress someone, anyone as Tokyo has. This level of across-the-board alienation is impressive.Of all the mistakes they’ve made - say, telling porky pies about their “ideal climate” during Tokyo’s surface-of-the-sun-adjacent summer - the worst was inviting journalists.
Anyone with sense could have told you how that would turn out - the press has turned on Tokyo like rabid dogs and started chewing off its arm. No amount of free backpacks will deter them. They are on a mission of destruction.Tokyo isn’t losing the information war. They’ve lost it. All they can hope for now is a scandal-free retreat. That way they can claim a half-hearted victory, and hope the world grows bored of slapping their Olympics around like a vaudeville act.
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