At the 1964 Tokyo Games, the Olympic flame was lit by a young runner, born in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped there in 1945. What symbolism and stories has this Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony evoked?

Olympic gymnastics stuff-up; Japanese keirin

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