Volleyball, A sport likes no other!! With a family of 800 million fans from across the globe, our volleyball players are playing an important role in promoting sports in their countries!! This year in the Tokyo Olympic, many of our volleyball players are honoured to represent their country as flag bearers at Tokyo Olympic!!
Rio 2016 Olympics gold medallist and MVP Zhu Ting has been named as China’s flag bearer for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics starting in three days!!
The superstar is the seventh volleyball player announced already to represent their country at the Opening Ceremony as flag bearer. Besides Zhu Ting, Kenya’s Mercy Moim, South Korea’s Kim Yeon Koung, Tunisia’s Mehdi Ben Cheikh, the Dominican Republic’s Prisilla Rivera, Brazil’s Bruno Rezende and Russia’s Maxim Mikhaylov (competing under the Russian Olympic Committee flag) are the other volleyball players honoured to represent their country as flag bearers. Chile’s Marco Grimalt is the only beach volleyball player announced so far as flag bearer.
The Opening Ceremony begins at 20:00 local time (11:00 GMT) at the Parade of Nations around the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on 23 July.
The women’s competition will begin on 25 July while the men’s competition begins a day earlier, on 24 July.
