The Olympic flame for the Tokyo Olympics will be lit in a ceremony March 12 in Ancient Olympia. But precautions against the corona virus will make the ceremony a much smaller event than is usually the case. Around the Rings Editor Ed Hula talks to Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos by phone from Athens on the eve of the ceremony

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