The energy of the crowd has always been part of the glory of the Games. This year, not even family members will be allowed at the event.
I didn’t see much TV coverage of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials last month in Oregon. But one scene caught my eye.
Of course, we can still watch the Olympics on TV. There was simply way too much money to be made by too many people, mostly from global broadcast rights, for the Games to be canceled outright. But these Games will be very different from all others. These will be a sort of soundstage Olympics — the Quiet Games, if you will — and that’s kind of a shame.
“That’s difficult, no doubt,” he says. “Starting with my wife, who cannot be there. I have a touch of survivor’s guilt being able to go.” I used to arrive a week or so early to the Olympics, and I would immediately scout out the venues I was going to cover once the competition began.They would be in various stages of readiness. Some needed just a little paint or landscaping. Some needed food stands or restrooms to be completed. Some needed whole grandstands to be erected. All of them were missing an Olympic venue’s greatest asset — spectators.
Japanese athletes will get no such advantage at the Tokyo Games. They know their fellow Japanese citizens will be pulling for them, but it’s a lot different to look around and see cold camera lenses where encouraging and possibly familiar faces would otherwise be.
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