Tokyo Olympics Opens After One-Year Virus Delay

Tokyo Olympics Opens After One-Year Virus Delay
Actors perform during the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, on July 23, 2021. Morry Gash/AP Photo
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TOKYO—Mixed-race Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the formal start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but celebrated as a moment of global hope.

Organizers also paid tribute to medical workers as athletes from across the world paraded into an almost empty stadium, their smiles hidden behind masks for the first time.