Team GB to have male and female flagbearers in Tokyo

FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Closing ceremony - Maracana - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 21/08/2016. Flag-bearers hold their national flags as they take part in the closing ceremony. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

(Reuters) - Britain's Team GB is set to have male and female flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics for the first time in the country's history at the Games.

This move would leave a "real hallmark legacy message", chef de mission Mark England said.