{"id":308209,"date":"2021-03-25T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=308209"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T14:02:24","slug":"torch-relay-begins-for-2020-summer-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/torch-relay-begins-for-2020-summer-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Torch relay begins for 2020 Summer Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftorch-relay-begins-for-2020-summer-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=308209&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2391687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2391687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, wearing a face mask, applauds Azusa Iwashimizu, a member of Nadeshiko Japan, Japan\u2019s women\u2019s national soccer team, carrying the torch during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay Grand Start in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Kim Kyung-Hoon\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:50 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, March 25, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>After nearly a year of delays, the Olympic torch begins the final leg of its journey. Early Thursday morning, Japan\u2019s women\u2019s national soccer team took up the flame and jogged out of Fukushima for the first part of a four-month tour across the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Before it began, however, the relay was marred by controversy as torch bearers and city officials raised concerns about coronavirus restrictions. As a result, the event had a spectator-less start.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">it&#8217;s lit \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicTorchRelay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympicTorchRelay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TokyoOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TokyoOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A9NkoNX4NE\">pic.twitter.com\/A9NkoNX4NE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\/status\/1374904584242659329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, Seiko Hashimoto, said that in light of all that has happened in the last year, she hopes the flame can be a symbol of hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the flame of the Tokyo Olympics will become a sacred, powerful and warm light that brings hope to all those around Japan,\u201d she stated. \u201cAnd a ray of light through the darkness, which connects the path to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people will take turns carrying the flame over the next 121 days while visiting each of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures before arriving at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo for the opening ceremony on July.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/psaki-evades-question-of-kremlins-payments-to-hunter-biden\/\"> Psaki evades question of Kremlin\u2019s payments to Hunter Biden<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, wearing a face mask, applauds Azusa Iwashimizu, a member of Nadeshiko Japan, Japan\u2019s women\u2019s national soccer team, carrying the torch during the Tokyo &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275812,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}