Tokyo 2020: Meet the Athletes

Following the twists and turns of the COVID-19 era, the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games come to Tokyo once more, a year late, in 2021. How have the athletes hoping to make it to the medal podium spent their extra year of uncertainty? In this series we focus on the competitors—the Japanese athletes honing their skills overseas, the foreign athletes hard at work in Japan. Originally launched in early 2020, the series was put on hold while the fate of the games was unclear; fresh articles are available as of July 2021. (Photo: the Japan National Stadium in Shinjuku, Tokyo.)