Tokyo Olympic flame taken off display; next stop unclear.
and the torch relay were postponed until next year, the flame was put on display in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima. It was to remain on display through the end of April.
“Tokyo 2020 will now keep the flame in an undisclosed location to prevent people from gathering,” Tokyo organizers said in a statement to The Associated Press. “The idea will be to keep this flame burning and showing it to the world,” Michael Payne, the former marketing director of the IOC, told the AP in a recent interview.
“The Olympic flame burning will provide a very powerful inspiration, a bright light as the world goes through these difficult times," he said., Chinese organizers and the IOC organized an international torch relay that went to about 20 countries.
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