With four months to go until the start of the Tokyo Games (July 23rd across the networks of NBC), the Olympic Torch relay begins tonight, March 24 (although it will be Thursday, March 25 in Japan). The relay lasts 121 days. It will begin in Fukushima, with the Japanese team that won the 2011 Women’s World Cup serving as the first torchbearers. After the Grand Start ceremony in Fukushima, the relay will make its way to Tochigi and then on to Gunma. Along the route, the torch will pass through all 47 of Japan’s prefectures, from Okinawa to Hiroshima to Hokkaido before arriving in Tokyo, the Olympic host city, on July 9.
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