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The Olympic Flame burns after the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, on July 23, 2021. Photo: Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images.

Heritage and History

An Opening Unlike Any Other

COVID-19 may still be the reality of the world, but the Olympics in Japan forged on in spite of its…