{"id":21304,"date":"2021-07-23T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=21304"},"modified":"2021-07-23T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:37:50","slug":"odd-numbered-for-the-first-time-olympics-2020-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/21304","title":{"rendered":"Odd-numbered for the first time, Olympics 2020 Opening Ceremony."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo,<\/p>\n<p>A very different Olympics like no other before and Tokyo Games are surely that, but this is an event that has persevered through wars, boycotts and now a pandemic<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The legacy of Tokyo 1964 lives on at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These Olympic Rings were crafted with wood grown from trees that were planted by athletes 5\u20e37\u20e3 years ago when the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> first came to Tokyo\ud83c\udf33<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpeningCeremony?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpeningCeremony<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z1n0HCNK5h\">pic.twitter.com\/Z1n0HCNK5h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020\/status\/1418535914360303625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over its 125-year modern history. The Tokyo Olympics have already broken new ground because of the 12-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, pushing it into an odd-numbered year for the first time. But with no fans permitted in Japan, it has the distinction of being the first Games without spectators.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2013 \u27a1\ufe0f 2021<\/p>\n<p>For many people around the world, NO WORDS can describe this moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpeningCeremony?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpeningCeremony<\/a> |  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> |  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gKrdCAmJ9Z\">pic.twitter.com\/gKrdCAmJ9Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020\/status\/1418536802197991433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Olympics played every four years since 1896 (except 1916 due to World War I, 1940 and 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to COVID-19). Tokyo has hosted the Olympics once before in 1964. The message of Olympics displayed in opening ceremony that we are all connected.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re all connected \ud83e\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotioin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotioin<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i8qOrn7oUK\">pic.twitter.com\/i8qOrn7oUK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020\/status\/1418529555468361732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>India will see 20 of their athletes represent the country in the opening ceremony of the grand event on Friday. Boxing great M C\u00a0Mary Kom\u00a0and Indian hockey team skipper Manpreet Singh will be the flag-bearers at Japan National Stadium. Indian paddlers A Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra have decided against attending the ceremony as they have their opening match the following day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Refugee Olympic Team enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpeningCeremony?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpeningCeremony<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the second time in history, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> will welcome the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RefugeesOlympic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RefugeesOlympic<\/a> Team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UHcKU59NiU\">pic.twitter.com\/UHcKU59NiU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020\/status\/1418540006151360512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A total of 11,091 athletes are expected to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Those 11,091 athletes will compete in 41 different sports and 339 events this summer at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, A very different Olympics like no other before and Tokyo Games are surely that, but this is an event that has persevered through wars, boycotts and now a pandemic The legacy of Tokyo 1964 lives on at #Tokyo2020 These Olympic Rings were crafted with wood grown from trees that were planted by athletes 5\u20e37\u20e3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21309,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304\/revisions\/21309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}