Three-a-side version of sport made its Games bow with French president Emmanuel Macron and US first lady Jill Biden among the smattering of onlookers permitted into the arena
In the before times, when urban cluster was a phrase that meant something very different at the Tokyo Olympics, 3x3 basketball was poised to make some noise in its Games debut. It still did on Saturday – after all, DJs play music during contests to pump up the atmosphere. But while the world has grown used to sports taking place behind closed doors during the pandemic, there may be an especially keen sense of loss at the Ariake and Aomi urban sports parks in the next fortnight.
They were designed with mingling in mind, envisioned as the throbbing heart of an outdoor sporting carnival zone that, organisers promised in 2019, would deliver “a buzzing festival environment that brings fans closer to the Olympic action than ever before”.
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