ThoseguidelineswerescheduledtoendonMonday, andthepresidenthadpreviouslysaidthatEasterSunday, April 12thwouldbe a greattimetoreopensomepartsoftheUnitedStates.
LeadersfromtheInternationalOlympicCommittee, JapaneseOlympicorganizersandtheJapanesegovernmentheld a phonecallonMondayanddecidedtheeventswouldstartalmostexactly a yearlater, onJuly 23rd 2021.
IOCpresidentThomasBachsaidhumankindcurrentlyfindsitselfin a darktunnelandthattheseOlympicGamescanbe a lightattheendofit.
ButforthecountryofJapan, thebuildingsit's constructedfortheeventsandfortheathletesthemselves, thispresents a numberofnewchallenges.
Howcantheybeovercome?
NovisittoTokyo's Asakusaneighborhoodiscompletewithout a rideon a rickshaw.
Butthisyear, almostnoone's writingthingis a lotofemptyrickshawshere.
TheNationalMuseumofTile, housedin a lovelyformerconventisdedicatedtotheart.
Highlightsincludethetiledmanuallineoysters, theLisbonCityscapedatingfrom 17 38 and a tilednativeityscenefrom 15 80 toseeanotherpracticalcraftelevatedtoanartformstopbytheNationalCoachMuseum.
ThemuseumfoundedbyQueenEmiliain 19 0 forthishometo a oneof a kindcollectionofornateLeeembellishedcoachesandcarriages, somedatingbacktotheearly 17 hundreds.
OneneighborhoodpackedwithmustseizeisBill, a PortugueseforBethlehem, about 30 minuteswestofthecitycenter.
Peoplegothereforthreemainthings.
Themonastery, a towerofballetand a pastryshop.
TheJeronimosMonasteryincludes a mixtureofarchitecturalstyles, is a beautiful 1/16 centurystructurethattook 50 yearstobuild.
Foundedin 18 37 thepastryshopisfamousforitscreamyeggcustardtartsmadefrom a secretreciperecipethatcomescamefromthemonasteryshouldonlymuchthis'lljustbesideusandthefactthatwemake a lotthroughouttoday, andthey'realwayswarmandfreshlymade.
I thinkthatmakesthebigdifference.
Theseeggcustardtartsactuallymakeabout 10,000 ofthem a day, andit's nothardtoseewhy.
Veryeasytoeat.
Threeorfourofthemthey'reunder a You're a pieceofthepricejustright.
Onceyou'vehadtwoorthreepastries, a walkalongthetag, it's Riverleadsto a storybookcastleonitsbanks.
Theballettowerbuiltbetween 15 15 and 15 20.
ThestructuremarksPortugal's manymaritimevictoriesandwasonceusedas a militarybasetoguardtheporkfrompirates.
Whenitwasbuilt, itwasactuallyon a smallislandinthemiddleoftheriver, theflowoftheriver.