Naomi Osaka has carried out the honors, together with her presence fixing one of many nice mysteries of the Tokyo Olympics.
The tennis star lit the cauldron Friday at Olympic Stadium on the opening ceremony of the delayed 2020 Olympics. In doing so, Osaka despatched the Olympic flame hovering into the night time sky within the Video games’ first iconic scenes.
The id of the final holder of the Olympic torch previous to the lighting of the cauldron at all times is a carefully guarded secret.
Osaka, 23, is representing Japan on the Olympic stage the four-time Grand Slam winner is likely one of the host nation’s most-high-profile athletes.
Viewers in america who missed NBC’s stay broadcast of the opening ceremony have two extra probabilities to observe all of the pageantry of the opening ceremony within the coming hours. NBC will air a primetime replay between 7:30 p.m. ET and midnight and an in a single day replay between 12:30 a.m. to five a.m. on Saturday.
