TOKYO, Dec 16 (NNN-XINHUA) – The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympic Games will kick off on Mar 25, 2021, along almost the same route, set before the Games was postponed.
The relay’s start point will still be the J-Village National Training Centre in Fukushima, which was hit hard by an earthquake and tsunami in Mar, 2011.
The flame, lit in Olympia, Greece in Mar, will travel 121 days through 859 municipalities across all 47 prefectures, before it arrives at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, on July 23, when the Games opens. About 10,000 torchbearers will take part in the event.
To mark the 100-day countdown, a special illumination of the Tokyo SkyTree will take place later, to see the landmark light up in Sakura and gold – the colours of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch.
Yukihiko Nunomura, vice director-general of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, said, COVID-19 counter-measures will be taken. He added that, details of the counter-measures will be disclosed in Feb.
Japan is suffering a third wave of COVID-19, with 1,677 new cases reported, 305 of which were from Tokyo, the hardest hit city among Japan’s 47 prefectures.– NNN-XINHUA
