Tokyo: One of the strangest Olympics in history will go down to the beginning that is equally unusual when the opening ceremony of Tokyo 2020 takes place in front of thousands of empty seats on Friday.
Only 1,000 officials will be present at the 68,000 chair Olympic Stadium for traditional extravaganza, usually the celebration time for the host nation.
This time, after delaying a pandemic a year, the Japanese community was mostly locked and did not believe in the match, afraid of infection from foreign visitors.
The ceremony has been peeled back to prevent crowding, with the nation parade, the show center that displays athletes who smile and waves, decreases dramatically.
Glimpes of practice witnessed by Tokyo residents suggest high-tech shows including the display of drones.
The Japanese Emperor Naruhhito will be the head among the VIPs, along with the smterting of world leaders and senior figures including the main Mother of As Jill Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Tokyo 2020 has a difficult buildup and opening ceremony is no exception, with a series of bags of people connected to the show.
The ceremony director, Kentaro Kobayashi, was fired at night the show on the 1998 comedy sketch that referred the Holocaust.
It came only three days after the composer for the ceremony resigned after the protest in the past where he described the misuse of defective schoolmates.
The creative director for the opening and closing ceremony, Hiroshi Sasaki, also resigned in March after suggesting a female comedian plus size as pigs.
The focal point of the ceremony is the Cauldron Olympic lighting, which will conclude the winding torch relay which starts 16 months ago and has experienced several obstacles.
After turning on the spectator’s free ceremony at Olympia, Greece in March last year, the Greek part of the relay was canceled when a crowd collected Hollywood actor Gerard Butler in Sparta.
The fire almost almost landed in Japan when the Olympics were postponed and displayed around the nation to restart this restart.
However, almost half of the leg relay was taken from public roads or was changed with concerns of Coronavirus, and the fans were kept away when they finally arrived at Tokyo this month.
The worries of the virus remained high in Japan, with Tokyo under an emergency when the Olympics finally began.
Cases in the capital reached 1,832 on Wednesday – the highest since January.
Experts estimate the numbers will jump to 2,600 in early August, according to the Kyodo news agency.