The Olympic flame will no longer be exposed to the public in Fukushima. This was announced by the organizing committee of the Tokyo Games in the aftermath of the announcement by the Japanese government of the state of emergency in seven prefectures of the country due to the coronavirus.
The flame had been exposed since last week in Fukushima, a symbolic and severely tried place, nine years after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe. "We originally wanted to keep the flame exposed to the public until the end of April. But due to recent developments, we decided to stop it," said the organizing committee spokesman who declined to give details of where the flame will be stored. .
