The torch torch ceremony for the Beijing Olympics to be held in February next year was held in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Olympics.

The Olympic torch is lit by collecting sunlight at the ruins of a temple in Olympia, southern Greece, at each Games.



The Beijing Olympics holy fire firing ceremony, less than four months before the opening, was held unattended on the 18th, attended by IOC = International Olympic Committee Chairman Bach and Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee Vice Chairman Yu Zaiqing. Did.



At the ceremony, a woman dressed in an ancient white costume lit a brightly burning torch when she held her torch over the sun's rays collected through a mirror.



Then, as the first runner, Ioannis Antoniou of Greece, who participated in the Pyeongchang Olympics in the ski alpine, took over the torch at the official torch of the Beijing Games and started running, and the torch relay started.



As a countermeasure against the infection of the new coronavirus, there will be only two relays on this day, Antoniu and Li Jiajun, an Olympic medalist of the skate short track that ran on behalf of China. It means not to do it.



The torch will be handed over to the Organizing Committee of the Beijing Games at the stadium in Athens on the 19th and will travel to China.



According to the IOC, the torch will be on display at the Olympic Tower in Beijing for the time being, and a torch relay will be held before the Games.



The Beijing Olympics will be held for 17 days from February 4th to 20th next year.