Commencement of The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay
Commencement of The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay has begun its 121-day journey today at the national football training facility in Naraha, Fukushima. The first torchbearers were the Nadeshiko Japan women’s football team, who won the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. They took the flame from the Grand Start to the second torchbearer, 16-year-old Fukushima native Owada Asato.
The torch will then make its 121-day journey across the 47 prefectures of Japan before reaching its final destination in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on 23 July for the #Tokyo2020 Opening Ceremony.
Today’s torch relay ceremony commenced just over a year after the Olympic flame first touched down in Japan, on 20 March 2020 at Matsushima Airbase in Miyagi, after being lit in Greece at Ancient Olympia.
