Torch relay From 19th in 4 cities and towns including Kesennuma City and Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture

The Tokyo Olympic Torch Relay will be held in Miyagi Prefecture from the 19th to the 3rd.

On the 19th, the first day, the torch will be connected to four coastal cities and towns, including Kesennuma and Ishinomaki, which were severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake 10 years ago.

The Tokyo Olympic torch was handed over from Iwate prefecture to Miyagi prefecture, and a total of 281 runners fired the torch in 16 municipalities, mainly in the coastal areas affected by the tsunami, for three days from 19th to 21st. Connect.

On the 19th of the first day, the relay will start after the departure ceremony is held at the disaster public housing "Municipal Shishiori Minami Housing" in Kesennuma City from 10 am, and will visit the four cities and towns of Minamisanriku Town, Ishinomaki City, and Onagawa Town. ..

Of these, Kenichi Senda, who was the representative of Japan for fencing at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, where Japan boycotted participation, is scheduled to run in Kesennuma City.

People who are engaged in activities to hand down the earthquake disaster are also selected as runners, and in Ishinomaki City, a man who lost his daughter at Okawa Elementary School, where 84 children and faculty members were killed in the tsunami, and "Ganbaro" on the site of my home Men who carry the sign "U! Ishinomaki" act as runners.

The route is also characteristic, and in the former Kitakami River, the torch is carried by a hand-held boat called "Sonbei Ship", and the torch stand of the former National Stadium, which can be said to be the symbol of the last Tokyo Olympics, was installed in Ishinomaki City. Connect the torch at the general sports park.

And in Onagawa-cho, two runners, Sandwichman, a comedy duo from Sendai City who are continuing support activities in the disaster area, are scheduled to arrive at JR Onagawa Station after 6 pm.

The organizing committee of the Games and the executive committee of the prefecture recommend that the torch relay be watched over the Internet as a countermeasure against infection, and the viewing along the road is limited to local residents, and they applaud without making a loud voice with a mask. We are calling for support at.