Olympics: Striking best torch relay course vital to 2020 theme

Olympics: Striking best torch relay course vital to 2020 theme

Koji Murofushi (far L), the 2004 Athens Olympic Games men's hammer throw gold medalist, poses with local students in front of the borrowed 1964 Olympic cauldron in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki in this file photo taken March 5, 2017. Ishinomaki, which was heavily damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is bidding to be the starting point of the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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