TOKYO — As the sun broke over Friday morning here, the final weekend of the Summer Olympics in Japan, the lead story on one of the news stations had nothing to do with the massive sporting event that has taken over so much of this city.
Instead the focus was on Lionel Messi leaving Barcelona after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on a contract.
Perhaps only the biggest star of the world’s biggest sport could upstage the Olympics where the Olympics are actually occurring.
This was, of course, a historic, seismic, even shocking moment.