The best images of July 23 from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

1Kabuki theater actor Kankuro Nakamura, a prominent figure in the Japanese performing arts, was the last reliever to receive the Olympic flame.

The Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo 2020 Games ended this Friday in a closed-door ceremony for covid-19, hours before culminating its role with the lighting of the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in the opening ceremony.

EDGAR SU REUTERS

2Members of the Australian men's rugby team during training in Tokyo this Friday.

David Goldman AP

3Staff from the Games organization prepare for a men's individual rowing event at the Sea Forest Waterway, located in Tokyo Bay.

LUIS ACOSTA AFP

4An operator uses a plastic glove and cloth to disinfect the volleyball net at the Ariake Arena.

Frank Augstein AP

5Athletes, during a table tennis training session in Tokyo.

Kin Cheung AP

6Ángel Andreo, coach of the Spanish women's water polo team, poses with his players after a training session.

Mark Humphrey AP

7Brady Ellison, from the United States, collects his arrows at the Yumenoshima archery range, Tokyo.

South Korean San An broke the first Olympic record of the Tokyo Games on Friday, before they had even been officially inaugurated, by achieving a score of 680 in the ranking round.

CLODAGH KILCOYNE REUTERS

8Australian rugby player Henry Hutchison takes an ice bath after training in Tokyo.

David Goldman AP

9A sportsman from Thailand leads a windsurfing sail at Enoshima Yacht Harbor in Fujisawa.

PETER PARKS AFP

10Spanish Cristina Ouvina, player of the women's basketball team, during a training session.

Eric Gay AP

11Bianwa Yao from China during a mountain bike training session in Izu.

Thibault Camus AP

12Hiroto Ohhara, during a training session at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach in Chiba. OLIVIER MORIN AFP