Olympics organizers can breathe a very brief sigh of relief. Unlike virtually every other aspect of these pandemic-beset Summer Games, the opening ceremony was carried off Friday night in Tokyo wit…
organizers can breathe a very brief sigh of relief. Unlike virtually every other aspect of these pandemic-beset Summer Games, the opening ceremony was carried off Friday night in Tokyo without major incident.The ceremony was undoubtedly a peculiar spectacle, however, as a series of impassioned but largely abstract dance performances were staged before a vast, empty stadium — one that had been custom-built to seat 70,000 screaming Olympics fans.
organizations made the trip to Tokyo to attend the event — including French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. first lady Jill Biden — down from the roughly 40 that were present for Rio de Janeiro’s opening in 2016.
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