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A year later than planned and despite an ongoing global pandemic, the torch relay for the delayed Tokyo Olympics finally got under way in Japan.

Over the next four months the Olympic Torch will make its way from the icy north of Japan to the sub tropical islands in the far south, before arriving at the Tokyo Olympic stadium on 23 July.

大象传媒 correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes describes the torch's send off, and the growing opposition to this summer's Games owing to Covid infection rates and slow vaccine roll out.

Photo: Azusa Iwashimizu and members of Nadeshiko Japan, Japan's women's national soccer team, lead the torch relay during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay Grand Start, 25 March 2021 Credit: Getty Images