Olympic torchbearers run laps in empty Osaka park due to COVID spike

Torchbearers for this summer's Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday ran laps in an empty park in Osaka after the flame relay in the western Japan prefecture was rerouted from public roads due to a sharp rebound in coronavirus infections.A day before the 100-day milestone to the opening of the Olympics, Osaka, a metropolis that recently has been hit by record numbers of daily COVID-19 infections, became the first prefecture in Japan to give up on holding the relay in its planned format.Runners carried the flame for about 200 meters in the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, which was closed to the pu…READ FULL ARTICLE