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For the first time in Olympic Games history, the ceremony took place outside a stadium arena.
At the first modern Olympics in 1896, in Athens, each country’s athletes simply entered the stadium to hear speeches and a specially composed hymn – though more than 50,000 spectators still attended.
Minor human errors beautifully show Tokyo’s opening ceremony for what it is: real people in real time.
Against the odds, Rio scores soft-power points with memorable show at Maracanã stadium.
The role of animals in the Olympics — both during the opening ceremony and throughout the wider competition — is rightly generating controversy. When it was first announced that non-human animals would…
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