Tokyo Olympics: Japan prepares for Opening Ceremony as PM vows to 'fulfil our obligation to the world'

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London 2012 had a parachutist pretending to be the Queen, and Japan will try for something equally as spectacular.

There will be no fans, just a handful of VIPs, small parties of socially-distanced athletes and protests outside the stadium - the Opening Ceremony of Tokyo 2020 will feel very different.

From the archer in Barcelona in 1992 who fired a burning arrow up into the cauldron of the Olympic flame to the stadium street carnival in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 - it is one of the great global rituals and one that every host nation has put their own distinct stamp on.will be held safely, despite the growing list of COVID positive competitors and concerns about the event leading to a spike of infections in the local population.Many of the events will take place with no spectators.

"What worried me the most was that the public opinion was divided. I also wanted the Japanese people to understand that the Games will be held safely and securely.

 

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49 years ago, at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian terrorist group 'Black September.' This became known as the Munich Massacre.

The PM is a list.

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'no matter how many of the worlds athletes we kill doing it'

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