The flame for this summer's Tokyo Olympics left for Japan on Thursday after it was handed over by Greece at a drastically scaled-down ceremony, amid increasing fears over the spread of the new coronavirus.The Greek Olympic committee passed the flame to the Tokyo organizers, who were without a team of high-ranking Japanese officials and former athletes originally scheduled to attend the ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.The chartered aircraft carrying the flame will arrive at Japanese Air Self-Defense Force base in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on Friday.In front of rows and row…READ FULL ARTICLE
