Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony show director Kentaro Kobayashi fired over comedy skit referencing the Holocaust as games are under way
In the meantime, Japanese cheerleaders danced and waved pom poms outside a Tokyo train station to show their support for Olympic athletes the day before the pandemic-postponed Summer Games finally get under way.
Squad members held up signs saying "To all athletes", "Fight!", and "Tokyo 2020" with an image of the Olympic rings, as they performed in the blazing sun with temperatures already topping 30 degrees Celsius before 9 am. "The Olympics and Paralympics are really once every four years, this time they've been delayed by a year and a lot has happened, but they open tomorrow and we wanted to give our support," Asazuma told Reuters after the performance.
Foot traffic by the station was thin on Thursday as it was a national holiday but a handful of people stopped and braved the heat to watch the cheerleaders.
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