Music at Tokyo Olympics inspires gymnasts, skateboarders and even horses

The subtext right here, I suppose, is that expressiveness and beauty are the ladies’s portion of athletic virtuosity, whereas the lads’s area is energy, energy, stony silence and the decisive thud of a caught touchdown. The result’s that ladies, within the context of the occasion, appear contained by it, a type of subservience framed because the company of artistry. Performing, excelling, sure — but in addition dancing for our leisure. Why shouldn’t the lads be extra dancerly of their displays? Why should the ladies, since a scarcity of music counts as a deduction? It’s a tricky discrepancy to shake when the game solely seizes our collective consideration as soon as each few years.