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Torch ceremony in Olympia | First torch relay runner sets off for Tokyo | Olympic tourch arrives in Okinawa | Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the torch relay arrives | The Olympic torch relay passes Akasaka Mitsuke | ||||
Tickets | Athlete’s Village | |||||||
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Tickets | Athlete’s village | Abebe undergoes a medical examination at the Olympic Village | Athlete’s village | First cooking ceremony | ||||
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Bulgarian athlete gets married in Olympic Village | National Stadium, Tokyo | Komazawa Park area | Olympic Tower at Komazawa | Toda Boat Course | ||||
Opening Ceremony | ||||||||
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Yoyogi Stadium | Nippon Budokan | Shibuya Public Hall | Enoshima Yacht Harbor | Opening Ceremony, the final torch relay runner Sakai Yoshinori | ||||
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Opening Ceremony, Lighting up the sacred torch | Olympic Flame | Opening Ceremony, Japanese Team | Opening Ceremony, Japanese Team | Jet planes paint the Olympic rings in the sky | ||||
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IOC director Brundage and Daigoro Yasukawa, president of Organizing Committee greet at opening ceremony | Opening ceremony. Takashi Ono pledges | The Emperor and Empress attend the Opening Ceremony | Opening ceremony. Coubertin’s words | Brass band at Opening Ceremony | ||||
Volleyball | Ball Sports | |||||||
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Womens volleyball team coach Hirobumi Daimatsu | Women’s Volleyball Final | Women’s Volleyball Medal Ceremony | Soccer, Japan vs Argentina | Men’s Basketball, Japan vs Puerto Rico | ||||
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Mens volleyball. Japan VS Hungary | Men’s hockey, Pakistan vs Japan | Gymnastics, Endou Yukio | Gymnastics, Takuji Hayata | Gymnastics, Toshiko Aihara | ||||
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Gymnastics, Čáslavská | Freestyle bantamweight Yojiro Uetake | Freestyle featherweight Osamu Watanabe | Greco-Roman Wrestling. Hanahara (left) and Ichiguchi | Wrestling chairman Hatta | ||||
Judo | Boxing | |||||||
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Wrestlig. Freestyle medalists. (from left) Yoshida, Watanabe, Uetake, Horiuchi | Judo. Anton Geesink VS Kaminaga | Judo. Isao Okano | Takao Sakurai, Bantamweight | Takao Sakurai wins Bantamweight medal | ||||
Weightlifting | Athletics | |||||||
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Weightlifting (featherweight) Yoshinobu Miyake | Weightlifting (featherweight) Yoshinobu Miyake | Marathon. Jingu Forest | Japanese royal family watching the marathon | Track and field. Marathon Kokichi Tsuburaya | ||||
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Men’s 100m, Bob Hayes | Track and field. Marathon. Abebe wins 2 consecutive years | Track and field. Men 100m. Hideo Iijima | Horse jumping. Hiroshi Hoketsu | |||||
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