Here's how to watch start the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
. They and everybody else in the stadium were wearing masks against the virus.
The traditional pomp and pageantry that accompany the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, symbolizing the start of the Games, will literally be a made-for-TV event as a result of the unusual circumstances of these most unusual games.
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