In this July 14, 2021 file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, meets Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga during his courtesy call at the latter's office in Tokyo.... It will take something much more nuanced than those basic notions to assess the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics when they wrap up in two weeks.... There is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Governor Yuriko Koike, who has higher political aspirations....

In this July 20, 2021, file photo, a woman wearing a mask walks in front of a Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics display at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo.... " We're in uncharted territory," said Steve Wilson, the former president of the Olympic Journalists Association who covered the Olympic movement for The Associated Press for nearly three decades until 2017.... " These will be Games without the carnival atmosphere, celebration and fun that we've come to expect and look forwar

There are official pamphlets, pins and logos.... The circumstances, of course, were vastly different.... This time, Japan and the I.O.C. postponed the Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic....