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>> thanks very much. blake, as you just heard from patrick some really great story lines out of the olympics, but unfortunately the covid cases continue to rise. give me a sense how this is being handled on the ground and the impact, whether the game has actually shifted that. >> reporter: yeah, isa, for months we've talked about how unpopular these games have been with the japanese people. and the reason for that the cases surging. despite all that since competition began last week it seems like this made for tv event is starting to pique curiosity. nearly 70 million people watched the openin...

Cheering on other american swimmers try to make noise with thunder sticks and do whatever they could to offer support, you put 18,000 people in there and it's just an entirely different environment. what adrenaline does that provide, not sure we can quantify. but to say it's all just the same, is just not accurate. >> all right, nbc sports has some 17 million people tuned into the open intermediate friday. the lowest viewership since 1996. the lowest in several decades, accurately actually. but there is a lot of excitement and this is a tv event. so, our own's perspective is getting to see wha...

But today, wherever in the world you may be, we are united in sharing this moment together. over four hours, there was fun and, too, the sense of an olympics as a tv event. it's showtime. but tokyo's showpiece has come with the world still in a pandemic. for the next 16 days, they want sport to be the focus. joe lynskey, bbc news. chair of uk sport and five time olympic medallist dame katherine grainger told me the ceremony did what it needed to do given the circumstances around the games. before it started we knew it was had to be dramatically different. there was never going to be the crowds...

And so, more than 200 nations converged on a city in a state of emergency. all in masks, the british team for the night was trimmed down. just 22 of them marched, led by moe sbihi and hannah mills, a rower and a sailor. this games is a year late. the ioc�*s called it the light at the end of a tunnel. the pandemic forced us apart. this separation made this tunnel so dark. l but today, wherever in the world - you may be, we are united in sharing this moment together. 0ver four hours, there was fun and, too, the sense of an 0lympics as a tv event. it�*s showtime. but tokyo�*s showpiece has ...

The ioc�*s called it the light at the end of a tunnel. the pandemic forced us apart. this separation made this tunnel so dark. but today, wherever in the world you may be, we are united in sharing this moment together. over four hours, there was fun and, too, the sense of an olympics as a tv event. it's showtime. but tokyo's showpiece has come with the world still in a pandemic. for the next 16 days, they want sport to be the focus. joe lynskey, bbc news. chair of uk sport and five time olympic medallist dame katherine grainger told me the ceremony did what it needed to given the circumstanc...