A floating set of Olympic rings was reinstalled in Tokyo Bay on Tuesday, having been removed nearly four months earlier after the COVID-19 pandemic forced officials to postpone the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games by one year.
The 15-meter-tall, 69-ton structure — balanced atop a barge pulled upriver by a tugboat from a factory in Yokohama, where the display was built — was first installed in January to mark six months until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games.
Two months later, Japan made history as host nation of the first Olympiad ever rescheduled during peacetime.
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