TOKYO, Jap. (KFOR) – Friday night time on KFOR, NBC’s protection of the Tokyo 2023 Summer time Olympics Opening Ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. CST because the competing nations have fun the official begin to the video games.
After a year-long postponement, the Tokyo 2023 Summer time Olympic Video games are formally in full swing.
With the lighting of the torch by tennis star Naomi Osaka, the ceremony took off within the early hours of Friday morning, Oklahoma time.
Impressed by the solar, the Tokyo Olympic cauldron is designed to be higher for the planet.
The flame at Tokyo’s Nationwide Stadium and one other cauldron burning alongside the waterfront close to Tokyo Bay all through the video games will likely be sustained partially by hydrogen, the primary time the gasoline supply will likely be used to energy an Olympic fireplace.
The primary torch for these video games was lit in Olympia, Greece, 16 months in the past, however the relay was suspended for a lot of 2023 because of the pandemic.
Crew USA was led by four-time Olympic gold medalist and basketball participant Sue Chicken alongside her fellow flag bearer baseball participant and winter Olympic pace skating silver medalist Eddie Alvarez.
Chicken says she remembers 2004 when the U.S. girls’s basketball staff received to stroll on the entrance of the delegation together with flag bearer Daybreak Staley, now the U.S. head coach in Tokyo.
With over 600 athletes within the video games, the US introduced its second-largest staff in historical past however solely 200 selected to stroll within the ceremony.
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An image exhibits the Olympic Flame and Cauldron subsequent to the Japanese and Olympic flags through the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2023 Olympic Video games, on the Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, on July 23, 2023. (Photograph by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photograph by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP by way of Getty Photos) -
The Olympic Flame burns after the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron through the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2023 Olympic Video games, on the Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, on July 23, 2023. (Photograph by Franck FIFE / AFP) (Photograph by FRANCK FIFE/AFP by way of Getty Photos) -
Naomi Osaka stands beside the Olympic flame after lighting it through the opening ceremony within the Olympic Stadium on the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photograph/David J. Phillip) -
TOKYO, JAPAN – JULY 23: Flag bearers Sue Chicken and Eddy Alvares of Crew United States lead their staff out through the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2023 Olympic Video games at Olympic Stadium on July 23, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photograph by Jamie Squire/Getty Photos) -
Fireworks illuminate over the Nationwide Stadium through the opening ceremony of the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photograph/Shuji Kajiyama) -
The Olympic flag is carried in on the opening ceremonies through the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, Japan on Friday, July 23, 2023. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press by way of AP) -
Dancers carry out through the opening ceremony within the Olympic Stadium on the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photograph/Lee Jin-man) -
Naomi Osaka lights the Olympic cauldron through the opening ceremony on the Olympic Stadium on the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash) -
Fireworks gentle up the sky through the opening ceremony within the Olympic Stadium on the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photograph by way of AP) -
Fireworks illuminate over Nationwide Stadium through the opening ceremony of the 2023 Tokyo Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photograph/Kiichiro Sato) -
Dancers carry out through the opening ceremony within the Olympic Stadium on the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photograph/Charlie Riedel) -
Athletes are seen with fireworks through the opening ceremony on the Olympic Stadium on the 2023 Summer time Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash)
Watch NBC’s Opening Ceremony protection Friday, July 23 at 6:30 p.m. on KFOR.
This broadcast will embody particular protection of Crew USA and athlete interviews not seen within the reside present that was aired on Friday morning.
