sign off featured music, football freestylers, break dancers and bmx riders. the traditional athletes parade was much more downbeat tight restrictions meant 62 countries were not there and not represented by a flagbearer. laura kenny carried the flag for team gb. she finishes the games as her country s most successful female olympian and the most successful female olympic cyclist. president of the international olympic committee thomas bach said the games had brought hope as he declared them closed. in these difficult times, you give for the world the most precious of gifts. hope for the first time since the pandemic began, the entire world came together. sport returned to centre stage. billions of people
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to put on a show. but this would be far from the celebration imagined when they won the right to host these games. the olympic first opening ceremony in a state of emergency. in a scaled down and at times sombre performance, the focus immediately turned to the athletes, those who had strived so long for this moment amid the uncertainty and solitude of the pandemic. all connected by a common dream. the resident connected by a common dream. the president of connected by a common dream. tie: president of the international olympic committee, thomas bach. the decision to press on had strained the relationship between the ioc and their hosts, but now an apparent show of unity, the emperor ofjapan among an audience restricted to less than 1000 vips. the public barred from their own party. at times it was easy to forget the empty stands, wooden rings made from trees grown from seeds planted in the city when the games first came to tokyo 57
serious questions about tokyo s ability to safely host the games. cnn s brian todd is on the story. reporter: the olympic games will not spread covid infections, at least according to thomas batch, president of the international olympic committee. he voices the utmost confidence that the summer olympics in tokyo will be safe, insisting the residents of the olympic village will be vaccinated and there is almost 100% of all of the ioc members and staff will arrive vaccinated here in japan. reporter: a doctor who advised the ioc on safety protocols does not share bach s confidence. it is like the ioc is the drunk guy in the bar determined to get behind the wheel of his car. he s always behind the wheel of his car. all we have been trying to do is to get him home without killing anybody on the way. reporter: this doctor says she and other medical experts
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