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10MA TOPICS! [JAPAN FA] Japan's FIFA Women's World Cup-winning squad to open Torch Relay

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December 19, 2019

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Tokyo: The members of Japan's FIFA Women’s World Cup-winning squad from 2011 will open the domestic leg of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay, the Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee announced on Tuesday.

The leg, known as the "Grand Start", is due to take place at the J-Village National Training Centre in Fukushima on March 26, 2020.

Tokyo 2020 states the fighting spirit the team displayed during the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany that inspired many of the people struggling in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck the country earlier that year......


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