Jimu News reporter Xia Yu comprehensive report
A year late, the Tokyo Olympics finally opened at 7 p.m. Beijing time on July 23. Although the audience of the Tokyo National Stadium was empty except for the special guests, although the stage set was simply described by netizens as "worthy of being a master of storage who is good at 'breaking away'", although the director was fired the day before the opening, despite the difficulties in opening the road... However, the opening ceremony with the theme of "love and commonality" still saw in its own way that "if the hope is there, the flame will last", it still gives surprises. We will review the highlights of this year's opening ceremony from the five-ring display, fireworks, delegation admission, flame lighting, performance, etc.
Empathy
The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee announced that the common theme of the four ceremonies of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games is "Moving Forward", while the theme of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is "United by Emotion", and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has previously said that it hopes that in this special Olympic Games held under the epidemic, with the help of the power of sports, the hearts of the world will be connected and the seeds of hope can germinate here. An epidemic has made everyone more aware of the preciousness of life; an Olympic Games has gathered the hearts of people who have been cut off by the epidemic.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games did not have a theme song, but sang John Lennon's 1971 work "Imagination", expressing the Olympic Games' concept of "away from war, people living together in harmony and equality", and the IOC hopes to express the desire to break the barriers and unite the world through this song. The song has also been sung at the opening ceremonies of the London and Rio Olympics.
At the opening ceremony, 1824 drones illuminated the sky of Tokyo Olympic Stadium, and the emblem of "Tokyo 2020" seamlessly became a rotating earth, which is reported to convey the theme slogan of Tokyo 2020 " United by Emotion".
Epidemic elements
At the beginning of the opening ceremony, the performers ran on the treadmill, isolated from each other, but everyone was not alone, connected to each other through the Internet, day after day, spring to winter...
The complex red lines are intertwined, symbolizing the complex and tangled mood of people during the epidemic. The red lines that combine virtual and real, pulling on each other, also represent the operation of nerves and muscles in the human body...
Dancer Moriyama Mirai a solo dance to express the memory of the deceased, this is a specially set up silent session, to mourn the deaths of those who died in the new crown epidemic, in the guest seat, Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee Chairman Bach, Japan's Emperor Naruhito, everyone present and in front of the screen, silent.
Delegation admission
Accompanied by the Japanese video game theme song BGM, delegations from various countries entered.
It is reported that the admission to BGM is a hodgepodge of the theme song of a famous Japanese video game. The signs display the names of the delegation using Voice Bubbles from Japanese manga, and the bearer's costume also features the design of screen printing techniques found in Japanese manga.
The actors wore costumes featuring comics, which consisted of pale comic magazine paper made of fabric, forming a welcome avenue.
Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony appearance order: Greece first appearance, refugee Olympic team second appearance, host Japan last appearance.
Under the new rules, hosts of future Olympic games will play from the bottom, with the United States and France coming in third to last and second to last, respectively. The order of appearance of the remaining delegations will be arranged in the order of the Japanese "fifty tones". The Chinese delegation appeared 108th. The lighting and dancing in the stadium where the athletes of each delegation have special athletes wear masks also change according to the admission team
Double flag bearer for equality between men and women
At the Tokyo Olympics, each delegation will allow two athletes (one male and one female) to serve together as standard-bearers, in order to advance the principle of "gender equality" advocated by the IOC.
The flag bearers of the Chinese delegation will be women's volleyball player Zhu Ting and men's taekwondo athlete Zhao Shuai. Zhu Ting is the current captain of the Chinese women's volleyball team, in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship again after 12 years, Zhu Ting was named the most valuable player in the women's volleyball competition with her outstanding performance. Zhao Shuai achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in Olympic history for Chinese men's taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In 2018, he also served as the standard-bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the Asian Games in Jakarta.
Wooden five rings
The five-ring display session begins in the Edo period. Tokyo was called Edo in ancient times, and the background music is hummed by workers in the Edo period. Subsequently, wooden rings are transported to the site and form the shape of the five Olympic rings, which is the display of the five rings at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The display of the five rings logo of each Olympic Games is a key program that the audience is very concerned about, and unlike the opening ceremony of the previous Olympic Games to display the overall five rings, the Tokyo Olympic Games is a splicing way to show the five rings, and the wooden five rings logo is slowly spliced on the spot.
This wooden five-ring was built by athletes from around the world when the 18th Summer Olympics were held in Tokyo in 1964, and it is very memorable. Today, 57 years later, those seeds have grown into big trees, and these trees have not only become the five rings we see, but also used to build multiple venues for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
50 item icons
Olympic sports icons represent the various sports in the Olympic Games. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese first invented the sports icon, that is, the use of simple graphics to represent the Olympic games, clear and clear. Since then, sports icons have become a tradition of the Olympic Games and are still in use today.
There are 50 sports icons for the Tokyo Olympics. At the opening ceremony, the performers cooperated with each other, using props to match body movements, showing a total of 50 icons such as table tennis, shooting, and triathlon. Even for some complex icons, the performers used props, hand movements and pre-shooting to reproduce the essence.
The flexible performance in fast-paced music quickly reminded netizens of the classic Japanese variety show "Super Change", which aroused warm attention. "Super change" brain hole opened, netizens shouted "back to childhood" .
Fireworks show
Start with indigo and white fireworks, and then the most brilliant fireworks shine in the neon country's brilliant night sky.
Light the Olympic flame
At the opening ceremonies of previous Olympic Games, the lighting of the main torch has always been the most anticipated moment. The design of the main torch stand for the Tokyo Olympics was inspired by Mt. Fuji, where the orb represents the sun, which shines on Mt. Fuji.
On March 12, 2020, the tinder of the Tokyo Olympic Games was collected in Greece and arrived in Japan on March 20, 2020. Starting from March 25, 2021, from Fukushima, the Olympic flame will begin to be passed through Japan. After 121 days and a journey of more than 2,000 kilometers of transit, the Olympic Flame arrived at the opening ceremony of the main stadium.
At the live torch relay ceremony, the first sticks were judo Olympic champion Tadahiro Nomura and women's wrestling legend Saori Yoshida. The second bat was played by three famous Japanese baseball players, namely Wang Sadaharu, Shigeo Nagashima and Hideki Matsui, of whom Wang Sadaharu was 81 years old and could not walk independently, and insisted on completing this special pass with the support of others. Completing the third torch relay was done by a doctor and a nurse. Next to complete the fourth torch relay was a Paralympic player, Kazuko Futa, who won gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. The fifth stick is six children.
The last stick has reached Naomi Osaka, who has won four Grand Slam titles, including two us open titles and two Australian Open titles, becoming the Asian athlete who has won the most grand slam titles. This season, she withdrew from the French Open and Wimbledon to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics and said that she would do her best to win the women's singles gold medal for Japan.
Naomi Osaka holds a torch and comes to the main torch stand, which is inspired by Mt. Fuji. After Walking onto the torch stand, Naomi Osaka lit the flame and waved to the athletes on the spot.
With the ignition of the Olympic flame, the official opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games, which has been delayed for a year due to the epidemic, was announced.
As on the evening of July 23, 2020, the first anniversary of the countdown to the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games, athlete representative Rihanako Ikee told athletes around the world with her personal experience, "If the hope is there, the flame will last forever"...
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