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The opening ceremony highlighted the isolation endured by athletes battling to train during the pandemic and remembered the millions who have died of coronavirus. Also on the programme: the assassinated president of Haiti is to be buried in the northern city of Cap-Ha茂tien; and a Chinese leader visits Tibet for the first time in more than thirty years.

(Picture: Torch bearers pass on the Olympic flame in Tokyo Credit: Reuters/Edgar Su)