American interest in the Olympics took a hit in 2021 during the delayed, sparsely attended, many-hours-distant Tokyo Games. Paris has brought it back with a vengeance.

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician, has become Japan's oldest living person and held an Olympic torch at the 2021 Tokyo Games.

The Paris Olympics, not surprisingly, proved a fantastic success, with huge crowds that proved quite a contrast to the COVID-19-locked down 2021 Games in Tokyo. Sunday night, the torch was ...