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Rui Hachimura – Photo Credit: Flickr
NBA star Rui Hachimura will carry Japan’s flag at the Tokyo Games, Japanese Olympic chiefs said on Monday. However, fans might not be allowed into the stadium to watch the opening ceremony.
Hachimura will carry the flag along with twice-world-champion wrestler Yui Susaki at the Jul 23 opener for the pandemic-postponed Games.
But with concern growing again over rising coronavirus cases, organisers have said that they may need to rethink the attendance limits for Olympic events in order to reduce any risk of infection.
Games president Seiko Hashimoto warned that “having no spectators is an option” at the national stadium.
The 23-year-old Hachimura’s father is Beninese and his mother is Japanese. He said that carrying his nation’s flag would be “a great honour”.
“I’d love this to be an opportunity for kids and everyone else in Japan to watch me and my team-mates play at the Olympics, and take even more of an interest in basketball and a sport as a whole,” he said in a statement.
