China News Service, Tokyo, July 24 (Reporter Yue Chuan) For the night of the 23rd, Tokyo waited for four years and 365 days.
The opening ceremony ended the five long years.
This is a special ceremony.
Due to the epidemic, the Tokyo New National Stadium has historically witnessed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games without spectators.
However, the huge stadium, which can accommodate nearly 80,000 people, does not appear deserted because of this.
On July 23, the opening ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympics was held at the New National Stadium in Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Xing Chong
From a distance, the stands composed of red, white, and green seats seem to be full of spectators dressed in different colored costumes.
Coupled with the artificial cheers one after another, it is easy to forget that there is no one in the stands.
It can be seen that the host has put a lot of thought into this special opening ceremony.
In addition to Naomi Osaka lighting the main torch, there were three other things that impressed me deeply at the opening ceremony: one was the five-star red flag specially prepared by colleagues, which was of great significance in the context of the empty field; the other was the use of "super change" The form presents the icons of the Olympic events, which is full of creativity; the third is the oath session. As the representative of athletes, Ishikawa Yoshizumi and others hope to make the world a better place through sports.
Through sports, making the world a better place, which echoes the theme of the opening ceremony "Sympathy and Commonness".
Japan regards the Tokyo Olympics as a symbol of recovery, implying rebirth after the disaster, just like the role played in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
The wooden Olympic rings that appeared in the opening ceremony are also derived from the tree species that athletes brought from all over the world during the Olympic Games.
57 years later, those young species have grown into towering trees.
On July 23, the opening ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympic Games was held at the New National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
The picture shows the Chinese sports delegation.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
After the postponement of the Olympics, the concept of recovery was extended to the world by the host, hoping that the Tokyo Olympics will become a symbol of mankind's victory over the epidemic.
To meet this challenge, we need to be more united (Together) in addition to being faster, faster, and stronger.
As expected, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games attracted a lot of attention.
In the past few days, although the topic of the Olympic Games has gradually heated up, it seems that the attention has not been "broken."
At the opening ceremony, this layer of window paper was punctured.
While watching the opening ceremony live, I have been using my mobile phone to scan social software.
At the beginning, I was mentally calculating how many hot searches there were, but I soon discovered that there was no detail in the opening ceremony that was not the focus.
Or surprise, or admiration, or puzzle, or spit, no matter what kind of feeling, you can find the right entry in this nearly 4-hour festival.
On July 23, the opening ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympic Games was held at the New National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
The picture is lit for the main torch.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
What is the significance of the opening ceremony?
In my opinion, it is to foretell the world that a grand event is about to start, to help us temporarily shield the confusion and chaos, and to try to awaken a pure love deep in our hearts.
Measured by this, the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics did it.
The day before the opening ceremony, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has just fired Kentaro Kobayashi, the performance director of the production and performance team for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics. His history of using inappropriate remarks as funny skit lines was dug up many years ago.
Announcing such news within 40 hours of the curtain's opening is inevitably worrying.
The ill-fated opening ceremony, like the epitome of the Tokyo Olympics, stumbling all the way.
When she gave a speech at the opening ceremony, Seiko Hashimoto, the chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, who was nearly 60 years old, was a little choked and could clearly feel that she was trying her best to control her emotions.
Perhaps no one understands the difficulty of hosting the Olympics at this moment better than Seiko Hashimoto.
On the stage, she was not like a leader who was tasked to lead a huge organization to deal with all kinds of difficult challenges when she was in danger, but she showed the helplessness of devoting everything to a goal without being understood.
Over the past year or so, when the International Olympic Committee and individual international sports organizations have focused on the Olympics, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, which is the master, has to bear other pressures.
In Japan, there have always been voices hoping that the authorities will suspend the hosting of the Olympic Games.
While the Tokyo Olympics is advancing difficultly amidst doubts and opposition, there is a voice that accompanies them-no matter what problems the Olympics encounter, they will be put on hold after the start of the game.
"The Olympic flame is the light at the end of the dark tunnel." Since the postponement of the Olympics, IOC President Bach's remarks have been repeatedly quoted frequently, and he has repeatedly emphasized the importance of hosting the Olympics on different occasions.
Bach said that no matter how long the tunnel is, everyone will pass the end together.
At the opening ceremony, when the Irish athletes bowed to the volunteers, when the Argentine athletes entered the arena in joy, and when the Dutch athletes showed their tears to the camera, you can deeply feel the significance of the Olympic Games to them.
From today, they focus on the world.
Bless the Tokyo Olympics.
I hope sports can make the world a better place.
(Finish)