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Experience the celebration alongside the people of japan. it was surreal to sit inside and watch the celebration of sport. the fire works, parade of nations, and the handover to paris was strange. it was strange to watch thousands of athletes come on to the field, essentially waiving to a couple hundred journalists. personally it was an amazing experience but it served as reminder it was not the olympics anyone wanted and definitely not the olympic games that the people of japan deserved. >> indeed. you did a great job. blake ses essig, thank you. with an air force fly over and the colors of...