just hours away, correspondent tansy richardson has more from the japanese capital. many of us thought the visa lympics may never happen. but here we are counting down to the start of the opening ceremony. the organizes promising a show that is sober, but in sync with the sentiment of today, really since the modern lympics begun in 1896, some sort of opening ceremony has always been integral to the games. but i don't think i how cities ever have to try and pull off a balancing out quite like this. let's look at the venue where it's going to be hell. a $1400000000.00 stadium built for house, $70000.00 fans. and of course, there will be no fans there for this opening ceremony. it's made for tv only events . no fans allowed at any of the events subsequently, either in terms of the athletes taking part with $12000.00 athletes and performance at the opening ceremony in rio. that number will be well down with many athletes only flying into tokyo a day or 2 before their event because of covet 19 restrictions and athletes. somewhat reluctant, perhaps, to go to this ceremony