If you ask 100 sports fans, Family Fued–style, what they remember about the Rio Olympics in 2016, I don’t think you’d get very far down the board before arriving at the fact that the pools turned green. I bring this up now, as the sun has set on Tokyo 2020, because I’m thinking about what sticks in our collective minds.
All-time great athletes and legendary performances, sure. But sometimes it’s just the novel and the strange. The thing you’d never seen before.
So what will stand out five or 25 years after the strangest, least-watched Olympics of my lifetime?