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The Olympic flame, housed in a special safety lantern, is en route to China after being officially passed to the Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee at a special ceremony in Athens. Yu Zaiging, the vice president of BOCOG and the Chinese Olympic Committee, received the flame on behalf of BOCOG from Hellenic Olympic Committee President and International Olympic Committee member Spyros Capralos at the handover ceremony at the historic Panathenaic Stadium on Tuesday. The ceremony, which was held without spectators due to the pandemic, began with the Olympic flame carried into the stadium by Athens 2004 water polo silver medalist Evi...
