Plexiglass dividers, hand-sanitizing stations and wiped-down medals still abound at the Olympics despite new science disputing their effectiveness
TOKYO—Under the lights of the Nippon Budokan arena this weekend, Naohisa Takato elevated all 130 pounds of himself to hero status as he won Japan’s first gold of the Olympics.
And when his symbolic moment came atop of the podium, he beamed with the pride of a nation as he waited for his prize. The medal was presented to him on a tray like an airplane lunch. Unlike nearly every Olympian that has ever come before him, Takato was asked to put his antiseptic-sprayed medal around his own neck to comply with the Games’ all-encompassing Covid-19 protocols.
“It’s heavy,” he said. “It reminds me of Rio’s medal, but Rio’s medal was kind of excessively heavy.” According to the reasoning of the Tokyo organizers, it might have also been crawling with microbes—never mind that the risk of surface Covid transmission is minuscule. But the do-it-yourself medal ceremony is just one of the dozens of strict mitigation measures imposed at these Games that now seem outdated through better understanding of the virus’s behavior and widespread vaccination among the tens of thousands of people in attendance.
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