2020 Olympics: 950 People Attended The Opening Ceremony

2020 Olympics: 950 People Attended The Opening Ceremony By Sampson Adedeji At last, 2020 Olympic games officially gets its opening ceremony in Tokyo the capital city of Japan on Friday with 205 countries, consisting of 11,000 atheletes taking part, BSNSports.com.ng can reports. The ancient games was postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic which halted the sporting events across the globe. The traditional Olympic Games opening ceremony took place on Friday in Tokyo and despite the closed session decreed for reasons related to Covid-19, around 950 people attended the opening ceremony, at the 68,000 seat national Olympic stadium. According to the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, the 950 people invited to the opening ceremony are made up of officials, journalists, artists, athletes and other leaders. As for world leaders, 15 are normally expected, including French President Emmanuel Macron and US First Lady Jill Biden. Japanese Prime minister Yoshihide Suga was also present in the ceremony.