Spectators will certainly be prevented from the beginning of the Tokyo Olympics lantern relay, coordinators stated Monday, introducing a pared-back launch as the countdown to the held off Games starts in earnest.
Fans were informed to steer clear of from following week’s “simplified” beginning event and also initial leg of the across the country relay, which was postponed a year ago when the Olympics were postponed over the coronavirus.
“The grand start ceremony and the first section of the Fukushima torch relay… will not be open to the public,” coordinators stated in a declaration, including that the celebrations would certainly be relayed real-time online.
The news comes in advance of a choice on whether followers from overseas will certainly be permitted to go into Japan for the held off Games, anticipated to be taken prior to the lantern relay starts on March 25.
Reports recently recommended the Japanese federal government is readied to prohibit followers from abroad over concerns of a surge in infections.
The lantern relay will certainly start in Fukushima prefecture, which recently noted the 10th wedding anniversary of the 2011 quake, tidal wave and also nuclear calamity that left 18,500 dead or absent.
But the lantern, gone to the Olympics opening up event on July 23, will certainly obtain a much more low-key send-off than initially intended.
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Mar 16
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Mar 16
Grand champ Hakuho will certainly have surgical treatment for an ideal knee injury that required his withdrawal Tuesday from theSpring Grand Sumo Tournament (Kyodo)
Mar 16
A 12-year-old Japanese lady is readied to end up being the youngest second-dan expert gamer of the parlor gameGo( NHK)
Mar 15
Grand champ Hakuho, defending the very first time given that July 30 because of injury and also disease, opened up the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament with a win onSunday (Kyodo)
Mar 15
World No 1 Dustin Johnson validated on Saturday he did not place his name onward for an area on the UNITED STATE group for this summertime’s Tokyo Olympics and also will certainly rather concentrate on the PGATour(Japan Times)
Mar 14
The Japan Sumo Association stated Saturday an overall of 28 wrestlers, all from outside the leading 2 departments, will certainly miss out on the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament beginning this weekend break after a set of trainers examined favorable for the coronavirus.(Japan Today)
Mar 13
Japan midfielder Yuki Kobayashi has actually said sorry to Qatar authorities for a “misunderstanding”, after he charged an umpire of intimidating to eliminate him.(Japan Today)
Mar 13
The Azumazeki steady, sumo’s initial to be opened up by a foreign sumo older, previous sekiwake Takamiyama, and also house to the sporting activity’s initial international yokozuna, Akebono, will certainly shut its doors and also combine with the Hakkaku steady, the Japan Sumo Association revealedFriday (Kyodo)
Mar 12
Japanese professional athletes at the Summer Olympics will certainly not be qualified for coronavirus inoculations used by China given that Japan has actually not authorized the vaccinations, Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa stated onFriday(Japan Today)
Mar 12
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have actually jailed a previous sumo wrestler over the supposed ownership of cannabis in Toshima Ward, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Mar 11). ( tokyoreporter.com)
Mar 10
The Japanese federal government has actually determined to omit abroad viewers from attending this summertime’s Tokyo Olympics and also Paralympics, as component of initiatives to stop the spread of the unique coronavirus, authorities with understanding of the issue statedTuesday(Japan Times)
Mar 06
Japan’s COVID-19 situations are dropping many thanks to, or probably in spite of, loosened limitations on financial task. But with no hr coming close to for a choice on the destiny of the Tokyo Olympics, the federal government is taking no opportunities and also prolonged the state of emergency situation in the funding Friday night. (Nikkei)
Mar 06
An icon of riches and also social standing in Japan 40 years back, golf endured a deep drop-off in its appeal after the country’s financial bubble ruptured in the very early 1990s. ( dw.com)
Mar 03
The Tokyo Olympics arranging board on Tuesday stated it would certainly assign 12 brand-new women participants to boost ladies’s depiction on the board to 40%.(Nikkei)
Mar 01
Japan’s Kengo Suzuki came to be the initial jogger from East Asia to run a guys’s marathon in under 2 hrs and also 5 mins, as he asserted the 76th and also last Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon onSunday (Japan Times)
Mar 01
Tamayo Marukawa, Japan’s brand-new priest for the Tokyo Olympic and also Paralympic Games, has actually come under attack for signing up with a war a careful double last name system for couples. (Japan Times)
Mar 01
Cesario, that won Grade 1 races on 2 continents and also has the difference of generating 3 stallion boys at stud in Japan, passed away at Northern Farm on Saturday aged 19. ( racingpost.com)
Feb 28
Athletes taking part in this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo can start going into Japan after it raises its emergency situation statement order following month, the Nikkei paper reported onFriday(Japan Today)
Feb 25
Japan’s Olympics priest stated Wednesday that coronavirus inoculations would certainly not be a requirement for involvement at this summertime’s Olympics and also Paralympics, in spite of a World Anti-Doping Agency charm that professional athletes be inoculated. (Kyodo)
Feb 25
Roughly 1,000 volunteers that were to assist at this summertime’s Tokyo Olympics and also Paralympics have actually stopped following sexist remarks by previous arranging board head of state Yoshiro Mori, the board statedWednesday (Kyodok)