The world is coming together atthe opening ceremonyof theTokyo Olympicswith the help of a few famous performers.
Singing against a white background, the video performance played as athlete representatives from each country gathered below on the opening ceremony stage. Above the Olympic Stadium, event organizers had 1,800 drones form the Tokyo Olympics logo before making the globe.
Keith Urban; John Legend.Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images; Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
Drones form the globe at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony.Leon Neal/Getty Images
Ono, 88, tweeted shortly before the ceremony about the song she wrote with her late husband, who was killed at age 40 in 1980.
“IMAGINE. John and I were both artists and we were living together, so we inspired each other. The song ‘Imagine’ embodied what we believed together at the time. John and I met – he comes from the West and I come from the East – and still we are together,“wrotethe Tokyo-born Ono.
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“We have this oneness and ‘the whole world would eventually become one’ is the sense that we will all be very happy together. All these instructions are for people for how to spend eternity, because we have lots of time,” Ono said in a statement.
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To learn more about Team USA, visitTeamUSA.org. Watch the Tokyo Olympics beginning July 23rd and the Tokyo Paralympics beginning August 24th on NBC
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