The Greek Olympic Committee held a press conference in Athens on the 24th, announcing part of the schedule of the Tokyo Olympic torch collection ceremony to be held on March 12.
Xinhua News Agency, Athens, February 24 (reporter Yu Shuai Shuai) the Greek Olympic Committee held a press conference in Athens on the 24th, announcing part of the schedule of the torch collection ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games to be held on March 12.
The torch collection ceremony will be held on March 12 in ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. The ignition will be completed by using the sun’s rays and concave mirror.
The President of the Greek Olympic Committee, capulos, introduced at the press conference that the president of the International Olympic Committee Bach and the Greek prime minister mizotakis would attend the ceremony.
According to what was announced at the press conference, after the torch was lit, the famous Greek actress xánthi Georgiu, who played the priestess, would hand the torch to the first torchbearer Anna corakaki. This is the first time in history that a woman has served as the head of the Olympic torch. Corakaki won the gold medal in shooting at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The torch will be transmitted 3200 kilometers by 600 torchbearers in Greece. On March 19, the torch will arrive at the panaxinaiko Stadium in Athens, which hosted the first modern Olympic Games, and will be handed over to the representatives of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.