The flame for this summer's Tokyo Olympics was handed over to Japan from Greece on Thursday 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 did not include the team of high-ranking Japanese officials and former athletes originally scheduled to attend the ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.The ceremony at the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896 was held without the presence of spectators, as was the case during an event to ignite the flame a week ago …READ FULL ARTICLE
