Tokyo Olympics: Day 0, July 23 LIVE —Opening ceremony LIVE — Updates, results, blog
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Welcome to The Bridge's LIVE updates from Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics begins today. Four Indian archers will compete in the qualification stages of the men's and women's archery events on Day 1 of the Games. While the men's section will be led by Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, and Praveen Jadhav, the women's section will be led by world number one Deepika Kumari.
Stay tuned with us as we bring you all the results and updates from the matches of Day 1
That's all we had from the opening day the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Games will star full fledged tomorrow. Do not forget to join in for our LIVE coverage of the quadrennial event from tomorrow.
The host nation, Japan, enters the stadium to the loudest cheer of the evening. And with that the country parade comes to a close at the National Stadium in Tokyo.
Tonga's Pita Taufatofua continued his tradition of going shirtless during Olympic opening ceremonies in Tokyo.
Hend Zaza, a 12-year-old table tennis player, walked as the joint flag bearer for the country of Syria in the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. She is also the youngest athlete to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony had the country of Swaziland walking in with its new name, 'Eswatani,' earlier. Swaziland competed in the Olympics for the first time during the 1972 Munich Games, before missing the next two editions. They have been a regular feature at the Games since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics but will compete with their new name for the first time after the country's king changed its name to Eswatani in 2018.
The Indian contingent led by Manpreet Singh and MC Mary Kom have just completed their parade, while the newly appointed Sports Minister, Anurag Thakur, watched from the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium.