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The Olympic flame sits on a platform set up at Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens, on Saturday, March 14. Kyodo News/Getty Images
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics flame handover ceremony in Athens this Thursday will be a scaled-down event with only a few Tokyo Games officials and torch bearers present to protect everyone from the coronavirus, the Hellenic Olympic Committee said on Monday. The handover ceremony between the Hellenic Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 Organizers will take place inside the ancient Panathenaic Stadium in Athens – the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896.The ceremony will include a dance with no more than 10 people and a torch relay with four people: Two from Greece and two from Japan, organizers said in a statemenmt.
The two torchbearers representing Japan will be Nomura Tadahiro and Yoshida Saori who won gold medals in three straight Olympic Games in the men's judo and women's wrestling, respectively. Greece last week canceled the remainder of the domestic Olympic Torch Relay through the country to avoid attracting crowds just a day after the Olympic flame was lit in ancient Olympia.
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