Tokyo Olympics: Miranda Ayim, Nathan Hirayama named Canada’s flag-bearers | FULL

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that Miranda Ayim, a three-time Olympic women’s basketball player, and men’s rugby sevens co-captain Nathan Hirayama will be Canada’s flag-bearers at the Tokyo Olympics.

Ayim and Hirayama are not only Canada's first team sport athletes to be chosen as flag-bearers, but also the first time multiple athletes will march with the flag at a summer games opening ceremony.

Canada will send a team of 371 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics that, despite COVID-19 challenges and concerns, will be the country’s largest Olympic contingent since the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games.

Delayed a year by COVID-19, events begin in less than one week, with restrictions in place on spectators, officials and athletes as Japan attempts to limit the spread of the virus among the thousands of international athletes and officials arriving for the Games.

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