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118-year-old Kane Tanaka from Japan will no longer participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay due to concerns over the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Japan. Tanaka, also known as the world’s oldest living person, could have been the oldest Olympic torchbearer in history. Tanaka’s nursing home received a message informing them that […]

This month, the world is set to witness a unique world record be broken during the opening of the postponed Tokyo Olympics: on March 25, we are going to see the oldest Olympic torchbearer. Kane Tanaka, a 118-year old Japanese woman, is primed to “take the flame as it passes through Shime, in her home prefecture of […]