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Torch relay begins for Tokyo Olympics

By Associated Press

March 24, 2021

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Japanese torchbearer Azusa Iwashimizu, center, a member of Japan women's national football team, arrives at a torch kiss point to pass on the flame during the torch relay grand start at J-Village National Training Center in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture in northeastern Japan. The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics began its 121-day journey across Japan on Thursday and is headed toward the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23.
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Local residents carry handmade flags featuring Olympic Rings at the torch relay route of the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay in Naraha, Japan.
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Local staff answers questions from a local woman before torchbearers arrive at the torch relay route.
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A Tokyo 2020 staff carries the Olympic flame at the torch relay route of the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay in Naraha, Japan.
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Local torchbearer Mahiro Abe, 19, waits for passing the Olympic flame on the Olympic torch route of the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay.
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Local torchbearer Mahiro Abe, 19, carries the Olympic torch route on the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay.
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Japanese torchbearer Azusa Iwashimizu, right, a member of Japan women's national football team, passes the Olympic flame to high school student Asato Owada, left, at a torch kiss point during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay.
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Official ambassador of the Tokyo 2020 torch relay Satomi Ishihara, second right on stage, and Paralympian Aki Taguchi, right on stage, light the celebration cauldron during the grand start ceremony of the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics.
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Local people cheer torchbearers and participants running at the torch relay route of the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay.
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Local people wait for torchbearers to arrive at the torch relay route of the first section of the Fukushima Torch Relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.
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Azusa Iwashimizu, a member of Japan women's national football team, carries an Olympic Torch as a guard holds a sign for coronavirus precautions during the torch relay grand start outside J-Village National Training Center.
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Azusa Iwashimizu, center, and other members of Japan women's national football team run as torchbearers in the first leg of the torch relay.
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Japanese torchbearer Azusa Iwashimizu, center, a member of Japan women's national football team, carries a torch during the torch relay grand start at J-Village National Training Center in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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