When Team Canada enters a near-empty Olympic Stadium to officially kick off Tokyo 2020 on Friday, it will be led by Miranda Ayim and Nathan Hirayama. The Canadian Olympic Committee announced Monday that Ayim, a basketball player, and Hirayama, a member of the men's rugby sevens squad, are the country's flag-bearers for the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony. The sevens team opens its Games with a pair of matches on July 26 against Rio runner-up Britain and champion Fiji. Opening ceremony like no otherYou can watch live coverage of the opening ceremony on CBC-TV and CBCSports.ca beginning at 6:30 a.m. Canada's first 21 opening ceremony flag-bearers were men before skier Nancy Greene served in the role at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Source: CBC News July 19, 2021 12:32 UTC