Japan officially launches its largest ever Olympic delegation

The Japanese Olympic Committee held a launch ceremony for the host nation's Tokyo Olympic delegation on Tuesday, with the majority of the staff and a record-high 582 athletes participating online amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Japan's team captain, men's sprinter Ryota Yamagata, vice-captain and women's table tennis player Kasumi Ishikawa, and one of Japan's flagbearers, women's wrestler Yui Susaki, were the three athletes out of six participants at the ceremony held in the capital.JOC President Yasuhiro Yamashita, Chef de Mission Tsuyoshi Fukui and Mitsugi Ogata, the Japan team's general manag…READ FULL ARTICLE