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Beijing | The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Olympics, shortened considerably because of concerns about the coronavirus, started on Wednesday with an 80-year-old former speed skater carrying the flame.

The relay opened at the Olympic Foreign Park. Luo Zhihuan, the country’s first internationally competitive speed skater, ran the first leg.

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