Fifty Team GB athletes to take part in Olympic opening as organisers move to dismiss cancellation speculation The Tokyo Olympics will get underway one year behind schedule this Friday There'll be two flag bearers supported by just fifty team-mates when Great Britain arrive at Friday's Olympic opening ceremony in Tokyo. Team GB have sent their largest ever delegation to a foreign Games with 376 athletes competing across 22 sports. Five years ago in Rio ten less athletes bagged a combined 67 medals, including 27 golds, to finish second on the medal table, their most successful Games in over a century. However, concerns about the spread of the coronavirus - with six track and field athletes currently training in isolation after being identified as a close contact of a positive case - means the opening night party will be a low-key affair, despite its reported £121m budget.