Two people from the Tokyo Olympic torch, three consecutive championships from Greece to Japan

Two people from the Tokyo Olympic torch, three consecutive championships from Greece to Japan, October 25, 18:37

The Tokyo Olympic torch, which will be fired in Greece next March, will be brought to Japan by Olympic gold medalist Judo Tadahiro Nomura and wrestling Saori Yoshida using special transport aircraft. .

The Tokyo Olympic torch is scheduled to arrive in Japan on March 20 after it was fired in Olympia, Greece on March 12.

On the 25th, the official ambassador of the Torch Relay, Sandwich Man and the Organizing Committee announced the transport of the torch, both of which were judo Tadahiro Nomura and Wrestling Saori Yoshida, who won the Olympic Games three times in a row. A person was brought from Greece to Japan using a special transport aircraft.

At the Air Self-Defense Forces base in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, where the torch arrives, a welcome ceremony was held as the first ceremony of the Torch Relay, and children from local Higashimatsushima City, Ishinomaki City, and Onagawa Town were greeted by Mr. Nomura. And Mr. Yoshida is going to get down with a lantern containing the torch and ignite the torch.

Special transport planes that carry torch are designed with a torch relay emblem and are jointly operated by ANA and Japan Airlines.

Mr. Nomura said, “It is a great honor to bring an important flame from Greece, and I am proud as an athlete,” says Yoshida, “I hope everyone in Japan will smile. I want to bring it with Mr. Nomura. "

At the ceremony, the Aircraft Self-Defense Force flight team, Blue Impulse may not be able to fly, the Organizing Committee is coordinating with the country.

After the arrival ceremony in March next year, the torch will be displayed as a “fire of reconstruction” in the three prefectures affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima.