He wrapped up his stay with a stroll around Tokyo, unlike the athletes who were forbidden to do the same. But then again, his ever-presence served as a pretty good reminder of who was really pulling the strings at Tokyo 2020. VIDEO NEWS RELEASE: As #OlympicGames #Tokyo2020 comes to an end, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach hails Games as symbol of world hope and solidarityįor a man who became public enemy number one with such startling haste – “a money-grubbing asshole,” as one social media user rather bluntly put it – perhaps avoiding the limelight would have been wiser. He was on hand to pontificate at the opening ceremony and was never shy of offering himself and the organizers a congratulatory pat on the back whenever the opportunity presented itself. Throughout the Games, IOC chief Thomas Bach lingered in the stands and on our screens like a bad smell.
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The IOCįor the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the NBC TV deal, which runs until 2032 and is worth almost $8 billion, is doubtless a constant reason to crack open the champagne. Even if international viewing figures plunged from 2016 levels. Seeing what being an Olympian meant to the athletes helped us forget, for however brief a moment, all the nonsense surrounding this most cursed of events. This was perhaps Tokyo 2020’s most redeeming feature. I lost count of the number of times a microphone was thrust in front of a competitor’s face only for them to respond through blubbering tears, “I have done so much to just get here… five long years.” Photo by roibu / īeyond local heroics, athletes from all over the world took solace in merely being able to compete. A strong message to a society where 21st-century gender roles still mirror those of a 1960s Hollywood writer’s room. Women claimed 33 of Japan’s 58 overall medals. Japan won 27 golds, smashing its previous record of 16, nine of which came in judo (another national record). The Tokyo 2020 Athletesįor the athletes, who were so absent from the headlines in the run-up to the Games, you could certainly make a case for success. To conduct a more accurate post-mortem, we need to broaden the picture and look at it from several angles. Boiling it down to one simple vertical is a fool’s errand. Much like the debate over whether the Games should have gone ahead, the question of success is a loaded one. Was Tokyo 2020 a success? This is not a rhetorical question there is no straightforward answer.
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