The Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame is transferred to the Olympic cauldron after it failed to light the first time as it goes on display in the city of Ofunato in Japan’s Iwate prefecture on March 23, 2020. The flame arrived on March 20, 2020, in Miyagi prefecture, north of Tokyo, following the traditional lighting ceremony in Greece which took place without spectators due to an ongoing pandemic of the novel coronavirus.The Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame is transferred to the Olympic cauldron after it failed to light the first time as it goes on display in the city of Ofunato in Japan’s Iwate prefecture on March 23, 2020. The flame arrived on March 20, 2020, in Miyagi prefecture, north of Tokyo, following the traditional lighting ceremony in Greece which took place without spectators due to an ongoing pandemic of the novel coronavirus.
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