to protect my own living. there are certainly those who are looking forward to tonight s opening ceremony. many of them are already lining up to take photos close to the main stadium, but overall, the mood in tokyo is more weary acceptance than eager anticipation. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. we can go live now to our sports presenter sarah mulkerirns in tokyo because despite all the controversies and threats of cancellations we re just about there. i think we all wondered if we would get to the friday morning ahead of the opening ceremony of these delayed olympic games but we are, the city of tokyo is ready, as rupert outlined, it has been such a fraught and troubled build up to these games. troubled build-up to these names. ~ ~ ., games. we know the ioc president games. we know the ioc president this games. we know the ioc president this week - games. we know the 10c. president this week finally admitted to some sleepless
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olympic gold medallist pulled out of the final after her first vault, later saying she did it due to her mental health. she said:. i was just shaking.i ve just never felt like this we can go live now to our team in tokyo. sarah mulkerirns is overlooking the harbour in tokyo. and mariko 0i is further north in miyagi. great to see the both of you out and about sarah, let me start with you. you know, i was watching the gymnastics with my ten year old daughter she s a big simone biles fan like so many people, and she was so struck by that dramatic decision to withdraw based on her mental health, and the self awareness it must have taken for someone so young what s the reaction been where you are?
but overall, the mood in tokyo is more weary acceptance than eager anticipation. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. let s go live now to our sports presenter sarah mulkerirns, who s in tokyo, and we have some new olympic sports to look out for? we certainly do, good afternoon from tokyo. i think we all wondered whether we would get here with the opening ceremony just hours away here, eight pm local time in tokyo, and once we get through that, the sport will certainly grab the headlines free the pandemic one of the big talking points about these olympic games was these introductions, as you say, rich, of these new sports, all donein rich, of these new sports, all done in order to protect the future legacy of the international olympic committee and their games, they want to bring young people to the games, make sure they bring the demographics with them as the
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