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山口県内で行われた東京五輪の聖火リレーの一部中止で走れなかったランナーについて、国際オリンピック委員会（ＩＯＣ）が特例として公式の聖火ランナーに認定することがわかった。県内の９８人が、ＩＯＣの定義で聖火ランナーの要件を満たしていなかった。
大会組織委員会によると、聖火ランナーの定義は「ユニホームを着て、聖火がともされたトーチを持ち、トーチキスをした人」。ランナーには証明書が送られる。
県内のリレーは１３、１４日に１３市で約１８０人が参加して行われる予定だった。新型コロナウイルスの感染急拡大を受け、県が１３日のすべて、１４日の下関市での公道リレーの中止を決定。１３日は点火式が無観客で行われ、代表者１人が聖火皿にトーチの火を移した。県の担当者は「急きょ中止を決めたため、トーチキスを行う代替措置が間に合わなかった」と説明している。
結果として９８人が要件を満たさなくなり、「認めてほしい」と複数の声が県に寄せられた。県は組織委に認めるよう口頭やメールで要望した。
組織委によると、要望を受けてＩＯＣが検討した結果、県内のリレーは急な変更だったため、特例で走るはずだった人も認めることに決定。証明書も発行されるという。
岩国市を走る予定だった男性は「一時は『幻のランナー』になるのではと不安だったので安心した。ＩＯＣの判断に感謝する」と胸をなで下ろした。
It was the rustic village at which I dropped on during the journey from Okayama to Tottori that I ran across that hideous experience which defied descriptions. So small was the village that the regular bus service stopped there only twice a day.
Hearing of that at the ticket-office in Okayama, I was inclined to visit it, because I was pretty interested in the scenery in the Japanese countryside.
Amazingly enough, the village looked as if it remained what it used to be a century ago. At the same time, I was perplexed by the lingering stares that the villagers, especially female ones, gave me.
After half an hour's stroll, I saw the man whom I had never expected to encounter in such a countryside―the Western man with eyes in the same colour as mine.
He seemed to have lost the vigour and sanity, and though about forty, he had something that reminded me of a man of senile dementia. He suddenly approached me and, looking around us to see if any other was watching, shouted,
"You'd better leave here right now. Beat it, or THEY will catch you! THEY are...EH-AHHHH!!"
I returned to the bus stop only to find that, by bad luck, the last bus had broken down and I was obliged to stay in an inn there. In the inn midnight, I was awakened by weird whispers behind the door.
The next moment, the door being broken open, there came three girls or four without any clothing into the room. And one of them screamed, "Fuck me!"
When, jumping down through the window, I was desperately fleeing the cursed village, fortunately, a lorry bound to Tottori picked me up. Even now I shiver to imagine that, if I had failed to escape, they might have made me a slave like as that white guy，
無意味 last-modified: 2021-05-29 15:40:21