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The curtain comes up on Tokyo with the delayed Games taking place a year after the originally scheduled date due to the global covid pandemic. Opening ceremony Tokyo Olympics live online. Controversy has never been far away from the surface with the ongoing pandemic situation leading many Japanese citizens to openly oppose the staging of the Games. Growing positive covid cases involving participating athletes has done little to curry public opinion. Another scandal emerged overshadowing the Tokyo opening ceremony after it was revealed that the director of the ceremony of Tokyo Olympics has been dismissed, organizers said on Thursday, following news reports about his past comments on the Holocaust.
Tokyo President Seiko Hashimoto told a briefing that Kentaro Kobayashi had been dismissed because of past comments that made fun of a tragedy.
Organizers will be avidly hoping that once the sporting activity commences, public focus turns to the athletes participating and other issues get pushed to one side. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe , who stole the show at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics dressed as Super Mario , won't be attending the opening ceremony in Tokyo, according to Japanese media.
A fraction of each nation's athletes are expected to attend the ceremony Friday night, which will be held in an almost empty stadium.
About people, including officials and journalists, will watch, organizers said. Tokyo's grand opening on Friday will have none of that splendor or grandiosity normally associated with previous opening ceremonies , Tokyo's event will be a scaled down affair, a "sobering" performance, Marco Balich, longtime opening ceremonies executive producer, and now a senior advisor to the Tokyo ceremonies executive producer, explained when speaking to the media.
Nevertheless with beautiful Japanese aesthetics. Very Japanese but also in sync with the sentiment of today, the reality ," Balich, who was in charge of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics , said. The sun rises over Tokyo!
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