After a one-year delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tokyo 2020 will open on July 23 and Team Singapore will field its most diverse Olympic contingent ever with 23 athletes from 12 sports, including athletics universality placeholder and SMU alumna Shanti Pereira, who will make her Olympic Games’ debut in the Women’s 200m race. SMU student and sailor Kimberly Lim will also be participating at the Olympic Games for the first time in the Women's 49erFX category.