Tokyo Olympics Okawa Elementary School Children Bereaved Torch Runner Dec. 12th 19:57
A runner who runs in Miyagi Prefecture at the Tokyo Olympic torch relay next year, a man from the bereaved family of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, who was killed by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake, decided to run `` run with a sacrificed daughter "I want to do it," he said.
The organizing committee of the tournament decided 65 out of 2,788 people who applied for torch runners running in Miyagi Prefecture, including those who contributed to the reconstruction of the earthquake disaster, and the prefecture notified by e-mail and letter on the 12th about it.
Among them, Mr. Noriyuki Suzuki (54), who lost her second daughter, Mai at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, where 74 children were sacrificed by the tsunami of the earthquake, and continues to speak at the elementary school building. , I decided to be a torchbearer.
Mr. Suzuki said, “I applied with a name tag of Mai and wanted to run together. I decided to be a torch runner and called on Mai to“ run together ”in my heart. It was.
On top of that, he said, “I want to tell the world that what happened in Okawa-ko will never happen again. Even if things break in a disaster, their lives cannot break.”
Runners who have been decided will be notified formally by the Organizing Committee soon and will be informed of the course and order in which they will run.