Tokyo 2020 Games handover ceremony stripped down to bare bones

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics flame handover ceremony in Athens this week will be a scaled-down event with only a few Tokyo Games officials and torch bearers inside the stadium to protect everyone from the coronavirus, the Hellenic Olympic Committee said on Monday.

The handover ceremony usually attracts thousand of spectators, officials and ceremony participants in the central Athens' Panathenaic Stadium, site of the first modern Olympics in 1896.They will traditionally cheer as the last Greek torch enters the stadium after a one-week domestic relay, for the official handover to the next Olympic Games host city.

"The Handover Ceremony will take place in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic... and of a small delegation of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee," the HOC said in a statement.

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