![]() ![]() The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government, however, have insisted the Games will go ahead and have publicly rejected any talk of cancellation or postponement. General view of the olympic flame during the olympic flame handover ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, in Panathenaic Stadium, Athens, Greece, on March 19, 2020. The Epoch Times refers to the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic. ![]() The scale of the spreading CCP virus has forced the cancellation of numerous sporting events, raising concerns about whether the Olympics will be able to open as planned. 9.Ī six-day torch relay through Greece was canceled last week, with the country largely in lockdown having recorded 418 cases of the CCP virus and five deaths. It will arrive in Japan on Friday and kick off a domestic relay on March 26, with the Games set to take place from July 24-Aug. In a brief ceremony closed to spectators in Athens’ Panathenaic stadium, site of the first modern Games in 1896, the torch was received by Tokyo Games representative Naoko Imoto. Tokyo 2020 organizers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on March 19, amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus spread that has cast doubt on the global, multi-billion dollar event. ![]()
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