Published : Nov. 1, 2017 - 10:33
Kim Yu-na, the only figure-skating gold medalist of South Korea, took the white-and-gold Olympic torch on the first leg of its journey to PyeongChang on Tuesday.
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The Olympic flame handover ceremony took place at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
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Kim, an ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, lifted the torch at the ceremony.
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The flame then traveled to Korea by air, landing at Incheon International Airport on Wednesday morning.
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By Im Eun-byel (silverstar@heraldcorp.com)