Missed the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony? Here are the key moments and how to watch the highlights
Missed the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony? Here are the key moments to get you up to speed. 24 July 2021
It s been a long time coming, but the Tokyo Olympics have finally officially begun.
Hundreds of athletes marched through Olympic Stadium last night, with some of the larger teams not able to have their full cohort due to density limits.
It was certainly a different ceremony to what we ve come to know â masks, no crowds, a general vibe that this wasn t really what anyone had planned but an understanding that it s the best we ve got.
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Australia has begun vaccinating its athletes against COVID-19 ahead of Tokyo 2020, with two-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Cate Campbell being the first to receive a Pfizer jab.
While the vaccine isn’t compulsory for Australia’s Olympic and Paralympic contingent - set to total more than 2,000 including officials - Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) chief executive Matt Carroll said it provides comfort for Olympians given the COVID-19 concerns in Japan, per an
Agence France-Presse report. We’re not queue-jumping, he said. No one [in the public] is missing out, we’re running the vaccination process and we’re not putting the load on the public system whatsoever.
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Three-time Olympian Cate Campbell expressed relief Monday as the Australian team began being vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of the Tokyo Games.
While Australia has been one of the world s most successful countries in containing the spread of coronavirus, it has fallen far behind the government s own schedule for inoculations.
With the Olympics due to start on July 23, Canberra agreed to fast-track access to vaccines for all athletes travelling to Japan, despite accusations of queue-jumping.
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