NEW DELHI – The Tokyo Games are over and the Japanese people and government have heaved a sigh of relief that the spectacle passed without a major COVID-19 outbreak in the athletes’ village or other disasters.
Here in India, the celebrations of the country’s first gold medal in the men’s javelin throw — and its best-ever medal performance at a single Olympics — have not yet subsided. But how good, really, is our best?
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