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https://olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-and-paralympic-winter-games-beijing-2022-updates-on-spectators-vaccination-and-covid-19-countermeasures IOC announced it as well, so I assume it was a joint agreement like the ones we saw for Tokyo

A new teaser has been published -

Looks similar to the stage design used at the Nagano ceremonies so far

Woodkid has released the music that will be used for the handover ceremony

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210722/k00/00m/050/263000c Translation: The ceremony will go on as planned

The countdown page on the Tokyo 2020 website with those videos and a few other teaser images got taken down as well.

The director for the Opening Ceremony got fired for anti-Semitic comments https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1110570/tokyo-2020-sack-ceremony-director

Short preview of the handover ceremony music starts at 1:05

It's likely going to be part of a pre-show prior to the start of the ceremony, considering that the articles reporting on the Blue Impulse act word it as it happening "on the day of the ceremony" rather than "during the ceremony"

From the official Tokyo 2020 YouTube account, showing how the victory ceremony elements came to be:

There's going to be an exterior cauldron on the waterfront