Tokyo reporter’s blog: my blood ran cold – what if I have to leave midway through the Olympic cross-country?

“Do you still want to go?” asked a friend on a Zoom last week, as we chatted about the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the recently released Tokyo 2020 Playbooks, which will form the blueprint for how everyone behaves at this Covid-struck Games.

I can’t currently really imagine going to Tokyo. I haven’t left the house except for a run or walk since before Christmas. But I’ve written before about the fact the Olympics is the pinnacle of the career of any sporting journalist, as well as any athlete, and reporting my first Olympics at Rio 2016 has not in any way dimmed my enthusiasm to go to another.

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Article written by: Pippa Roome