Olympics have lockdown aura. But the narrative isn’t locked in.
After a four-month relay across Japan, the Olympic torch is finally burning in Tokyo. But it hasn’t arrived as planned.
Efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic have detoured the relay off public roads and replaced it with a series of discreet flame-lighting rituals. Nearly half of some 47 relay legs across the country were disrupted.
For this symbol of endurance, and the Games it heralds, the journey resembles the destination.
More than a year after its postponement, the delayed 2020 Olympics began Friday with a closed-door spectacle. Tokyo is again in a state
One for the booksAn unfinished story