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tokyo. we all wondered, didn't we, if we would ever get here to the opening day of the olympic games with the official ceremonyjust hours away. the coronavirus pandemic, well, it has altered the shape of these games into something we have never quite seen before for an 0lympics. they were delayed by one year, they are now here but they are, as you say, a more subdued affair. today we had got the latest numbers on coronavirus cases linked these games — three more athletes testing positive, one in the athletes�* village, 19 people in total related to the games have tested positive today so it brings the total number so far related to the olympic games with the positive tests to over 100. and when you think that you, you couple those cases with the incidences here in tokyo which have reached close to 2000 for the first time since january, to 2000 for the first time sincejanuary, you can to 2000 for the first time since january, you can really see why there is an awful lot of anxiety about the games