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relatively short opening ceremony yesterday (23rd), materials related to world-famous Japanese games and manga drew attention.
However, outside the opening ceremonies, the number of confirmed cases of Corona still continued, and protests against the Olympics continued.
Next is Reporter Lee Seong-hoon.
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When it is time to enter the national team, the familiar music of young people around the world resounds.
When the background music of world-famous Japanese video games such as Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy played one after another, and a sign with the name of a country in the shape of a speech bubble from a Japanese cartoon appeared, foreign media praised it as the most enjoyable time in the heavy atmosphere of the opening ceremony.
Tonga jockey Taupatofua, who captured the world's attention at the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Rio 2016 and 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, showed off his oiled muscles again this time, and Vanuatu's jockey Lilio Lil also appeared in a similar outfit and drew attention.
The performances of mime artists who humorously expressed the pictograms of each sport also drew attention.
Three Japanese baseball heroes familiar with domestic baseball fans, Oh Sadaharu, Nagashima, and Matsui, appeared together as torchbearers.
Life coach Nagashima Yomiuri, who is 85 years old this year, is known to have struggled to walk but insisted on walking instead of a wheelchair.
In contrast to the inside of the Olympic Stadium, where the opening ceremony was held without spectators, a large number of people gathered outside the stadium, making it a blind spot for quarantine.