USA TODAY
- The Tokyo Olympics officially begin Friday with the opening ceremony in Japan.
- U.S. flag-bearers are Sue Bird (women's basketball) and Eddy Alvarez (baseball).
- Roughly 200 members of U.S. delegation expected to march.
TOKYO — The Olympics are officially here.
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Games start with the opening ceremony, which will air live in the U.S. on Friday (7 a.m. ET, NBC), one day shy of when it was originally scheduled to take place in 2020.