On the way to the opening ceremony, thousands lined the street to cheer for the buses, even though they had no idea who was riding inside. But that hasn’t stopped many locals from catching a glimpse of the action. Police and volunteer security guards are on almost constant patrol. Technically speaking, a ban on fans for almost every event remains in place. “It gave us a sensation of somehow coming back to normality, seeing the fans there,” Carapaz said later. That’s because the draconian measures taken by the organizers of the Tokyo Games to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have also prevented fans from the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see most of the world’s best athletes perform on their own soil. That same stunt that overzealous fans pull in the Alps and Pyrenees during the Tour de France, where it might annoy Carapaz to no end, was actually welcomed by him in the Olympic road race.
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