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25 March, 2021
Coronavirus-Delayed Tokyo Olympics Torch Relay Begins
The Tokyo Olympics torch relay kicked off Thursday, a year late and without spectators, heralding a major step towards the start of the coronavirus-delayed Games on July 23. The rose-gold, cherry blossom-shaped Olympic torch was lit at the J-Village sports complex in Fukushima, which served as a base for operations responding to the 2011 nuclear disaster. Speaking at the launch ceremony, Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto said she hoped the Olympic flame would serve as "a ray of light at the end of the darkness".
"This little flame never lost hope and it waited for this day like a cherry blossom bud just about to bloom," she added.
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