The decision to postpone the Tokyo Summer Olympics is a wise one, writes jasongay. But it’s still hard for athletes who’d been targeting 2020.
Over the past few turbulent weeks, the fate of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo has been characterized primarily as a public health story, a government story, a money story, a media story. It is all those things, because the Olympics are about all those things, sometimes unpleasantly so.
Those two weeks have loomed large, for a long time. Dates on the calendar become fuel for an athlete—inspiring them, challenging them, and occasionally, tormenting them. Sometimes, the dates seem so far away, almost hard to render. Other times, they feel like they’re coming too fast. Yes, perspective is needed here. The Games are being moved, not canceled. There are far more urgent, life-or-death matters confronting the planet right now than Olympians being forced to reconstruct their schedules. The attention of the world needs to be on battling the coronavirus.Here’s an obvious truth about Olympic athletes: we like to think of them as larger-than-life world-beaters, but most of the athletes competing, they’re barely household names in their own households.
Entering the arena will have to wait. A recalibration is necessary, and it isn’t as easy as it seems. What’s happening now isn’t as simple as hitting the Big Olympics snooze button until next summer. It will require athletes to do a lot of mental and physical repositioning; just because you were on target for 2020 doesn’t mean it will all fall into place for 2021. A whole lot of specific work and preparation has flown out the window, with no outlet.
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