F1 in Covid slipstream Simply better than the rest Games on

EXACTLY four months out from its original July 24 start, the Tokyo Olympics finally fell victim to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Even as sense prevailed in a world more reliant on it than ever, the overriding feel was still one of confusion. What took them so long?

Officially, the postponement of the 2020 Games – the first such delay in 124 years – came about via a medium in keeping with these socialdistancing times.

A conference call between IOC president Thomas Bach and Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe set the wheels in motion for a rubberstamped delay until 2021.

Wheels that the IOC still had pointed towards Tokyo earlier this week with a view to reassessing in four weeks time. Now, said Abe, there was

“100% agreement” on a one-year delay.

In truth, no other call could have been made and it is worth logging the “100%” there as a facesaving measure.

Because after numerous objections from high profile Olympians and governing bodies, both public and private, matters had all-but been taken out of the hands of those in charge.

That, the IOC hope, will be forgotten as the years pass by.

As ever in a world governed by out-of-touch administrators, actions ended up jolting them more than words.

Without Canada and Australia officially pulling out of Tokyo 2020 citing their own public health fears, backed up by calls for reconsideration from the other Olympic committees of Brazil, Slovenia and Germany, along with World Athletics USA’s Swimming and Track & Field federations, along with the London 2012 head of health and safety,