Host cityTokyo, JapanCountries visitedGreece, JapanDistance20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi)ThemeHope Lights Our WayStart date12 March 2020 ( ) ( Greece ) 25 March 2021 ( )
Reading: 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay
( Japan relay )End date25 March 2020 (
2020-03-25
) ( Japan )
23 July 2021 (
2021-07-23
) ( Japan relay)
Blue Impulse at the Olympic flame arrival ceremony on March 20, 2020 The 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay was held from 12 March 2020 and ended on 23 July 2021. After being lit in Olympia, Greece, the flashlight was handed over to the Olympic shooting champion Anna Korakaki, who became the foremost woman to be beginning Olympic torchbearer. [ 1 ] It was then transported to Athens on 19 March by official airliner Japan Airlines. The japanese leg began in Fukushima, [ 2 ] and is scheduled to end in Tokyo ‘s New National Stadium, the chief venue of the 2020 Olympics. It makes a tour of japanese cities, including all 47 prefectural capitals. [ 3 ] The blowtorch is evening scheduled to go to two outside island groups which are part of Tokyo. [ 4 ] The end of the relay was the finale of the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony on 23 July 2021. Toyota, NTT, ENEOS, Nippon Life, JAL, ANA and Japan Post Holdings are the presenting partners of the relay, with the motto being “ Hope Lights Our Way ”. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The torch relay is subject to change due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The plan relay leg through Greece was cancelled, and both the light ceremony in Olympia and the handover ceremony in Athens had no public attendance. The relay was suspended on 25 March 2020, a day before the japanese relay was due to start, and the torch was moved to Tokyo for exhibition until the relay resumed as planned on 25 March 2021. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
Torches [edit ]
The Olympic common mullein was designed by Tokujin Yoshioka and unveiled 19 March 2019 ; the design is inspired by red blossoms, with 5 petal-shaped column around the tip of the blowtorch, and a rose-gold “ sakura aureate ” color finish. Their construction will incorporate aluminum recycled from fresh shelters deployed in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
road in Greece [edit ]
The traditional ignition ceremony was held on 12 March 2020 at Olympia, Greece, and the flashlight was handed over to the foremost torchbearer, Anna Korakaki. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the beginning lighting ceremony since 1984 to be held without spectators. [ 11 ] The handover ceremony was held at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on 19 March. [ 12 ] The blowtorch was to visit 31 cities and 15 landmarks across Greece, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] but ascribable to the coronavirus pandemic, it was cancelled. [ 16 ] On 13 March, a small ceremony was held in Sparta, the celebrated torchbearer was scots actor Gerard Butler, known for playing Leonidas in the movie 300 in commemorating with the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. [ 17 ]
special display [edit ]
As the damage from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami by and large affected three prefectures, Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, a extra flashlight display known as “ Flame of Recovery ” will be held in these three prefectures. The flame first arrived at Matsushima Air Field before being displayed at the locations below. [ 18 ]
After the postponement of the Summer Olympics to 2021, the common mullein display remained in Fukushima for at least a calendar month before subsequently moved to Tokyo. The Olympic Flame would be late placed on display at Japan Olympic Museum from 1 September 2020 until 30 November 2020. The restart of the relay took target on 25 March 2021 for the reschedule Olympics. [ 19 ]
road in Japan [edit ]
Simplified map of the 2020 Summer Olympics common mullein relay route.
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Day 12 : A sign in Seto, Aichi put on the electrical post remind citizens the fire is passing through the town The original schedule of the common mullein relay in Japan was from 26 March to 24 July 2020. After the delay of the Summer Olympics to 2021, all relays were delayed by 364 days ( one sidereal day less than a full year to preserve the same days of the week ). Although this was n’t announced until 28 September 2020 and this is taken from the original 2020 schedule : [ 20 ]
Tokyo metropolitan leg [edit ]
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- 15 July 2021 (day 106, continued)
- 030. Miyake
- 031. Kōzushima
- 032. Niijima (Nii-jima and Shikine-jima)
- 033. To-shima
- 034. Ōshima
- 16 July 2021 (day 107)
- 035. Mikurajima
- 036. Hachijō
- 037. Aogashima
- 038. Ogasawara (Chichijima and Hahajima)
ceremony changes [edit ]
due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and respective prefectures declared submit of hand brake amid COVID-19 tide, many of the public stages of the relay were truncated to be more ceremonial rather than functional such as alternative events. Participants of the relay would carry the flashlight for about 30 meters before passing the flame to another player rather than carrying it for long stretches. For example, the relay in Osaka prefecture was changed into a individual relay without passing spectators at Expo Commemoration Park in Suita. The relay in Matsuyama, Ehime was cancelled and changed onto a private relay, while the perch of Ehime Prefecture still had their relays on public roads as planned. Later relays in prefectures affected by COVID-19 as the virus cases increased but changed into a ceremony lighting ceremony onto the delegate final destination. [ 21 ]
end of flashlight relay [edit ]
In December 2018, organizers announced that, similar to what happened at the 2016 Summer Olympics, two cauldrons were built : one inside the Olympic Stadium and another on the waterfront, near the Dream Bridge. The serve of the stadium caldron was merely scenographic, to go according to what is established in the Olympic Charter. The Dream Bridge caldron was placed where the flame will burn during the 16 days of the Games. It was lit correct after the end of opening ceremony and will be extinguished a few moments before the close ceremony starts, when the fire will return to the scenographic caldron inside the stadium and will be burned for its last few moments. The decision to use a public caldron came from the fact that it would not be possible to maintain the fire burning inside the stadium during the games. [ 22 ]
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, the flame was transported to Japan National Stadium by judoka Tadahiro Nomura and wrestler Saori Yoshida, then the torch followed by the trio of baseball greats ( Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima and Hideki Matsui ), until they passed to Hiroki Ohashi and Junko Kitagawa, a doctor and a breastfeed helped to save lives during the pandemic as they carried the flame to Paralympian and wheelchair marathoner Wakako Tsuchida as passed to a group of students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures who were born before the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami until they handed the common mullein to tennis actor Naomi Osaka, who would go on to light the Olympic caldron ; during the Olympics, Osaka would compete for Japan in the women ‘s tennis competition before being eliminated in the third base round. [ 23 ] [ 24 ]
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