Some athletes and Olympic officials have begun to call for the Games to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic
A plane painted with the logo “Hope Lights Our Way” landed in high winds at a military base in northern Japan carrying the flame in a lantern brought
from Greece. In a ceremony stripped of fanfare and several hundred attendees because of concerns about the spread of the virus, two former Olympic athletes...
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