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  • 2021-08-24 (xsd:date)
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  • This performance was filmed at a Japanese university in 2013 (en)
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  • A video has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts that claim it shows footage of a performance at the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The claim is false: the clip actually shows a student performance at a Japanese university in 2013. Closing ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics. These incredible Japanese people. Most disciplined nation, reads a Facebook post from August 9. The video shows a group of people performing an intricate routine in a sports hall. Screenshot of the misleading post, taken Aug 19, 2021 The Tokyo Olympics drew to a close on August 8, 2021. It was held amid a surge in Covid-19 cases which forced organisers to ban spectators from most events. The video was shared here , here and here on Facebook alongside a similar claim in English and here and here in Hindi. However, the claim is false. Reverse image searches of the footage using Russian search engine Yandex found the same clip featured in a longer video posted on YouTube in January 2014. The video was uploaded by Japanese television station TV Asahi. The caption states it shows a performance at Nippon Sports Science University. The clip shared in misleading social media posts can be seen from the four-minute 30-second mark . Below is a screenshot comparison of the footage shared in the misleading social media posts (left) and Asahi TV's YouTube video from 2014 (right): Screenshots taken for comparison of the misleading post and the original video on Aug 19 A keyword search found an article about the same event by Reuters news agency from November 15, 2013. It is headlined: Japanese students take 'walking to a new level'. It features a clip from the footage. Some 11,000 people gathered at the university yesterday to witness Shudankodo (collective action) which has gained massive popularity after a YouTube video went viral last year, the article reads. But Nippon Sports Science University says the activity is nothing new, and that they’ve been doing it since 1966. It took the 77 students five months - at three days per week - of exercise to get them in shape for the performances. The practice drills saw them walking up to 1,200km. (en)
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