It is the question everyone is asking, the question that won’t go away, the one for which millions have an opinion but no one has an answer:
Will the Tokyo Olympics happen this summer?
The organizers last week declared they had entered what they coined “operational delivery mode” for the Summer Games, another clear signal that they will plow ahead toward the opening ceremony, scheduled for July 23 in Tokyo, regardless of the state of the coronavirus pandemic.
It remains clear, too, that their optimism will be accompanied every step of the way by a stream of strident naysayers, worried experts and inauspicious omens.