Writer’s playbook: What it’s like to report at the Tokyo Olympics
Aug 02, 2021
3 minutes
I gave up organized sports after high school, which made it all the more comical, and flattering, when my pre-Olympics COVID-19 tester asked me in what event I was competing at the Games.
Laughing, I corrected her mistake, telling her I was only going as a journalist. But if I was just a bit taller and skinnier I might make it into the pole vault – as the pole.
It was only when I arrived in Tokyo days later that I learned she had been on to
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