Greek torch takeover ceremony Dance scheduled for children to be dispatched March 6 at 5:47
Japanese elementary and junior high school students and high school students who were planning to perform a dance performance at the takeover ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics to be held in Greece this month will be dispatched due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection Was.
The ceremony for the torch of the Tokyo Olympics to be held in Athens, Greece on the 19th of this month is a ceremony where the torch will be handed over from Greece, the birthplace of the Olympics, to the host city, Tokyo, and about 140 students, including elementary and junior high school students and high school students in Japan. , "EXILE" will perform a performance that combines street dance and other performances directed by HIRO-san.
The Tokyo Organizing Committee says that the government is calling on schools around the country to take temporary closures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and to contact children with more people as they urge them to refrain from going out of their way. We decided that it would not be appropriate to travel abroad, and found that the dispatch was expected to be canceled.
In an event related to the Tokyo Olympic torch, a junior high school student from Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture, was to be dispatched to the torch relay starting on this month in Olympia, Greece, which has a sister city tie-up. Dispatch has been canceled due to the presence of a virus infected person.