Manabu Yoneshima, manager of Municipal Tsuruga Hospital and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games torch relay runner, attends a biweekly briefing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at his hospital in Tsuruga, Japan February 8, 2021. REUTERS/Ju-min Park
TSURUGA, Japan (Reuters) - It was Manabu Yoneshima's dream to cap his medical career by running in the Tokyo Olympics torch relay, a festive occasion he had been training for during nights and weekends.
Instead, Yoneshima has postponed his retirement and his lifelong goal to run the torch relay has been replaced by feelings of guilt as he and his colleagues battle the resurgent virus.
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