After 121 days, the torch arrived in the Olympic stadium and for the first time in Tokyo, where it was transported through the stadium by three-time Olympic champions in judo Tadahiro Nomura and wrestling Saori Yoshida, baseball players Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, and Hideki Matsui, health workers Hiroki Ohashi and Junko Kitagawa, Paralympic champion Wakako Tsuchida, and a group of students from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima who were affected by the 2011 East Japan earthquake, after which the Olympic cauldron was lit by the first Japanese tennis player ever to hold the top ranking, Noami Osaka.
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The Tokyo games were NBC's first Olympics broadcast under current president Susan Rosner Rovner.
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Two gold medals and no silver were awarded to and for a first-place tie in the athletics event.
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