Breaking with many years of custom, authorities in Japan revealed on Monday that the Olympic torch won’t be carried by relay runners, however in a lantern with a extra conservative show case.
The disclosing will happen at an occasion on Thursday in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, a authorities official is reported as saying.
Authorities in Fukushima have opted to forego the standard ceremony – full with a torch, torchbearers and most people – in mild of the continued coronavirus pandemic which has swept the world over and thrown the video games into uncertainty.
The Olympic flame arrived in Japan on March 12, having flown from Greece. Olympic organizers will change the standard torch relay with ‘torch visits’, which they hope can be met by respectful onlookers who both keep acceptable social distances or just watch from the consolation of their properties.
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In the interim at the least, Worldwide Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has dominated out cancelling the video games, which have been mired in difficulties and hypothesis about potential postponement because the world fights the unfold of the coronavirus.
In the meantime, the Australian and Canadian Olympic committees have vowed to not ship any groups if the video games go forward as deliberate in July.
As of Tuesday, Japan had 1,128 confirmed circumstances of coronavirus an infection leading to 42 deaths.
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