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Osaka Lights Flame As Tokyo Olympics Open Sport SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021 AmericanAm Pole vaulter Kendricks hopes toto raiser game to beat rival Duplantis WhenWhe I go to Tokyo, I want to be well-competed and well rested.reste So, hopefully will give Mondo Duplantis, the world recordreco holder, a run for his money. Sam Kendricks Sport | 11 OLYMPICS: FOOTBALL (WOMEN) Chile vs Canada, Japan vs GB, Netherlands vs Brazil, Sweden vs Australia, New Zealand vs USA Tokyo 2020: Sheikh Joaan attends opening ceremony THE PENINSULA – DOHA “It feels amazing. When I woke up this morning, I was just really excited, more excited Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) President H E than nervous. And yeah, I raced at the Olympics,” Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani attended the Tala said yesterday. opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics “It’s been a dream of mine for many years now. as flag bearers Tala Abujbara and Mohammed Al So I have nothing but kind of positive energy.” Rumaihi led the national contingent during the About the conditions during her event, Tala athletes parade at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, said: “The weather was the best we’ve had since yesterday. we arrived over our training days. Not too many H E Sheikh Joaan was accompanied by the waves today, a bit of cross headwind at the end, QOC Secretary-General Jassim bin Rashid Al but I can’t complain too much.” Buenain as the opening ceremony was also She said becoming a joint flag bearer with Al attended many other dignitaries including the Rumaihi for Qatar was a proud moment for her. Emperor of Japan Naruhito. “I’m extremely proud. It’s a huge honour. I Team Qatar, which includes a total of 15 ath- never thought it would be possible. I’m very letes, also started their campaign at the Games humbled by the opportunity,” she added. yesterday with rower Tala participating in women’s single sculls, clocking 8:06.29 for a fifth Cherif and Tijan to begin campaign place. She will get a second chance to display her tomorrow skills today. Meanwhile, Qatar’s beach volleyball duo of By participating at the Sea Forest Waterway, Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan are gearing Tala made history becoming the first Qatari rower up to open their Olympic campaign tomorrow. to compete at Olympics. They will play against Adrian Heidrich and Mirco Gerson of Switzerland in the opening match. A huge honour to represent Qatar: The pair continued their training session at Tala the Shiokaze Park. H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) President, and QOC Secretary- The 29-year-old said representing Qatar at Qatar’s judoka Ayoub Al Idrisi will also be seen General Jassim bin Rashid Al Buenain attending the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics the Olympic Games is a big honour. in action tomorrow at Nippon Budokan Complex. at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, yesterday. Team Qatar athletes parade during the Osaka lights flame as opening ceremony Tokyo Olympics open yesterday. REUTERS – TOKYO Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka after Japan’s global superstar Naomi lighting the Olympic Osaka yesterday lit the Olympic cauldron during the cauldron to mark the start of opening ceremony at Tokyo 2020, in an opening the Olympic Stadium, in ceremony shorn of glitz and Tokyo, Japan, Yesterday. overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity. Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus, the Games are being held without spectators in a city under a COVID-induced state of emergency, as many other parts of the globe also still struggle with a resurgence of cases. Nostalgic nods to 1964 at In its journey through the Today is a moment of hope. Yes, stadium, the torch was passed it is very different from what all from Olympic champions to of us imagined. But finally we Tokyo’s second Games baseball legends - one born in Taiwan - a doctor and a nurse, are all here together: Thomas REUTERS – TOKYO economic growth and tech- a Paralympian, and children Bach, President of the nological innovation. from parts of Japan hit badly by International Olympic Committee Drones and other high-tech About half an hour into the the earthquake and tsunami of marvels were on parade at the ceremony, giant wooden rings March 2011. Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony and paper lanterns traditional at It was finally handed to With the world in a tough yesterday, but some of the most Japanese summer festivals were Osaka, the 23-year-old four- situation because of the heartfelt moments were a look carried out into the stadium. The time tennis grand slam coronavirus pandemic, I would back to the past - 1964, when the rings were made of timber from champion whose background like to pay my respect and Japanese capital became the first trees that grew from the seeds as the daughter of a Haitian place in Asia to host the Games. borne by athletes from nations man and Japanese woman express my gratitude to medical Those Olympics have participating in the 1964 Games. reflects the changes and slowly workers and all those who are long been a touchstone of Emperor Naruhito, who growing diversity coming to a working hard every day to national pride, marking opened the Games as his grand- once ethnically homogeneous overcome the difficulties: Seiko Japan’s return to the global father Hirohito did in 1964, has country. stage fewer than 20 years spoken with pleasure of his own “The lesson we learned is we Hashimoto, Local Organising after its devastating defeat memories of watching the mar- need more solidarity - more sol- Committee President in World War Two and ush- athon and other events as a idarity among societies, and sol- ering in a period of robust four-year-old. idarity within societies,” said Thomas Bach, the president of an Olympic first, but not eve- It feels amazing. When the International Olympic rybody stuck to pandemic pro- Rowing: Qatar's Tala competes in Single Sculls I woke up this morning, Committee. tocols. In an awkward contrast I was just really excited, But the shift towards greater to most other athletes, teams more excited than nervous. inclusiveness has not come from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan without stumbles. Tokyo 2020 and Pakistan’s flagbearers And yeah, I raced at the has been hit by a string of paraded maskless. Olympics. It’s been a scandals, including the exit of The opening also featured dream of mine for many senior officials over derogatory fireworks in indigo and white, years now. So I have comments about women, Hol- the colours of the Tokyo 2020 nothing but kind of ocaust jokes and bullying. emblem, and gave a nod to Jap- Normally a star-studded anese tradition represented by positive energy. display teeming with celebrities, giant wooden Olympic rings The weather is the best the ceremony was low-key, with linked to the 1964 Games, which we’ve had since we arrived fewer than 1,000 people in the city also hosted. over our training days. Not attendance, strict social dis- Unlike his grandfather who tancing rules and signs calling opened the 1964 Games with a too many waves today, a on spectators to “be quiet Japanese word that means “con- bit of cross headwind at around the venue.” gratulations,” Japanese Emperor the end, but I can’t At the parade, most coun- Naruhito opted for a more complain too much: Qatari tries were represented by both neutral word in Japanese that is Qatar's Tala Abujbara in action during the Women’s Single Sculls heats, yesterday. rower Tala Abujbara male and female flagbearers in closer to “commemorate”. SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021 SPORT 11 IN BRIEF Twigg, Borch blaze through field Tokyo Olympic flame is the first powered by hydrogen as rowing competitions kick off AP – TOKYO REUTERS – TOKYO Inspired by the sun, the Tokyo Olympic cauldron is Emma Twigg of New Zealand in designed to be better for the planet. action during the Women’s Single Four-time Olympian Emma The flame at Tokyo’s National Stadium and Twigg’s latest battle for the podium Sculls heats at the Sea Forest another cauldron burning along the waterfront near got off to a roaring start yesterday, Waterway in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. Tokyo Bay throughout the games will be sustained as compelling match-ups in the in part by hydrogen, the first time the fuel source men’s and women’s single sculls will be used to power an Olympic fire. began to take shape on the first day Previous flames have usually run on propane, of Olympic rowing at the Sea although magnesium, gunpowder, resin and olive Forest Waterway in Tokyo. oil have also been used since the first modern The 34-year-old New Zea- cauldron was lit for the Amsterdam Games in 1928. lander posted the fastest overall The torch relay was introduced eight years later for time of the women’s opening heats Berlin. in her first race since 2019, Unlike propane, hydrogen does not produce cruising through to a 7:35.22 finish carbon dioxide when combusted. The Tokyo cauldron at the fan-free venue after two is fuelled by hydrogen produced by a factory in the heartbreaking fourth-place fin- Fukushima prefecture that runs on renewable ishes at the London and Rio energy. Games. up silver in the double sculls Qatar's Tala best, scorching their opening Organizers for the London Games in 2012 touted “It’s definitely a lung-buster. A in 2016, also advanced. Abujbara in heat in 6:08.38 and upending plans for a low-carbon torch but couldn’t get the few nerves going into it, but that’s On the men’s side, a action during an Olympic best set minutes design right in time.
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