Organisers upbeat on Olympics as torch is lit behind closed doors

Games ceremony is the first since 1984 to be held without spectators

Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of High Priestess with the Olympic Flame during the Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame for the Tokyo Summer Olympicson on March 12, 2020 in ancient Olympia. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/MILOS BICANSKI

Korakaki subsequently lit the torch of Japanese runner Mizuki Noguchi, the 2004 Olympic marathon champion. The torch will be handed to Tokyo Games organisers in Athens on March 19 after a seven-day relay in Greece. “The Tokyo Games are delivered by an all-star, all-Japan team with outstanding support and co-operation on all levels of government,” he told a small crowd of invited guests on a sun-drenched morning inside the ancient stadium, nestled in the western Peloponnese.

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