EDITORIAL: Gloom and doom in air as Opening Ceremony kicks off Tokyo Games

The day of the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics arrived on July 23 while the global sporting event is being plagued by ...
NBC Washington

Tokyo Olympics Medal Ceremonies Will Look Very Different — Here Are the Details

It’s been a longstanding tradition for the best of the best athletes at the Olympics: After earning one of the top spots in a sport, they each take their place on a three-tiered podium and await the ...

OLYMPICS/ Tokyo Games opening drew 16.7 million U.S. TV viewers, a 33-year low

NBC's broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest U.S. television audience ...

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to attend Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony

Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates has confirmed that Annastacia Palaszczuk will attend the Tokyo Olympics ...
AOL

Who Raises the Olympic Flag During the Opening Ceremony? All About the Tradition

During every medal ceremony at the Olympic Games, the flags of the countries represented by the winners are raised behind the podium. But one flag unites all the competitors: the Olympic rings.

How Tokyo's pandemic Olympics illustrate the cost of hosting the Games

When construction started on Tokyo's 15,000-seat Olympic aquatics center, Yui Ohashi was rebounding from a personal low: the ...