都庁でパラ聖火式典　「東京都の火」誕生

　２４日開幕の東京パラリンピックの聖火を作るため、東京都庁（新宿区）の都民広場で２０日、都内全６２市区町村が太陽光などそれぞれの手法でおこした火を一つにまとめる集火式が開かれた。「特別区の火」「市の火」「町村の火」の三つを集火台に移し「東京都の火」が完成した。
　式典は新型コロナウイルス対策のため、関係者のみの無観客で実施。小池百合子知事は「パラリンピックの成功なくして東京大会の成功はない。２４日からの大会を安全・安心なものとして成功させ、そのレガシーを持続可能な都市の発展につなげていきたい」とあいさつした。（2021/08/20-12:52）

A ceremony to create the "flame of Tokyo" for the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics was held at a square on the grounds of the Tokyo metropolitan government building on Friday.
   In the ceremony, held without spectators amid the COVID-19 pandemic, flames lit with solar power and other ways in Tokyo's 62 cities, wards, towns and villages were brought together.
   "We can't call the Tokyo Games successful unless the Paralympics end in success," Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said. "We aim to host the event from Tuesday safely and securely and use its legacy for the development of a sustainable city," she added.
   In order to complete the Paralympic flame, the flame of Tokyo will be united at a separate ceremony later on Friday with flames from the 46 other Japanese prefectures, as well as from Stoke Mandeville in Britain, the spiritual birthplace of the Paralympic movement.