The unlikely baseball star of the Tokyo Games is a slow-moving vehicle that ferries pitchers to the mound in a giant baseball mitt.
YOKOHAMA, Japan—Pitcher Jeremy Bleich was lathered up in the bullpen, and he needed to relax.
The reliever for Team Israel had just warmed up at Yokohama Stadium to face the U.S., and his mind was racing with thoughts of the game-winning run he allowed in a crushing extra-inning defeat the night before. He only found some peace when he plopped himself down in a strange-looking vehicle with an even stranger-looking chair.
As both dugouts watched, Bleich sat in a bullpen cart with a seat shaped like a baseball mitt and took a 300-foot ride that was just long enough for him to collect his thoughts. This was his Tokyo Olympics moment of zen.Bleich isn’t alone in his appreciation of the bullpen cart. Piloted by a ball boy, the vehicle is the least crowded means of transport in Tokyo—and quickly becoming its most popular.
Olympics that rely on all manner of motorized vehicles, including a network of slow-moving buses, automated taxis in the Athletes’ Village and remote-controlled cars that zip javelins around the athletics infield.
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