22 July 2021

Olympic Team Austria eyewear by J. Athletics presented by athletes like sailor and Olympic medal winner Tanja Frank who is one of the country's two flag bearers (woman + man) at the opening on 23 July in Tokyo

At the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the flags at the opening ceremony will be carried in the most cases jointly by a male and female athlete from the national teams. The rules for flag bearers were changed for the realisation of more gender balanced Olympic Games. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) stated at a press release concerning gender equality "We encourage all National Olympic Committees to make use of this option."(Source: https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-sends-extremely-strong-message-that-gender-balance-is-a-reality-at-the-olympic-games).
Tomorrow on 23 July 2021 on the occasion of the opening of the Olympic Summer Games Tokyo 2020, competitive sailors Tanja Frank and Thomas Zajac will walk as flag bearers in front of the delegation of Austrian athletes into the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. (The order of tomorrow's parade with the names of the flag bearers can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics_Parade_of_Nations.)

Video (below): The Austrian flag bearers at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, competitive sailors and Olympic medalists Tanja Frank and Thomas Zajac carried already the flag at the closing ceremony of the last Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Image, right: The picture shows sailor and Olympic medal winner (Rio, 2016) Tanja Frank presenting the official Austrian Olympic Team sunglasses by J. Athletics which are available in a limited edition online and at over 80 stores of Austrian optician Sehen!Wutscher. Tanja Frank is dressed in the official clothing, a shirt by Erima referencing the Austrian (red-white-red) flag in combination with the linen-interpretation of the traditional trachten leather-trousers by Adelsberger, for the Olympic Summer Games Tokyo 2020. Photo: J. Athletics, Sehen!Wutscher; © Niklas Stadler, www.niklasstadler.at.

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