Tokyo 2020: South Korea IOC official Ryu Seung-min tests Covid-19 positive on Japan arrival
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo 2020: South Korea IOC official Ryu Seung-min tests Covid-19 positive on Japan arrival

India Today  

South Korea’s Ryu Seung-min has become the first International Olympic Committee member to test Covid-19 positive after landing at Narita International Airport, just outside Tokyo, for the Olympics. Ryu, a former table tennis player and a member of the IOC Athletes' Commission, confirmed the news on Instagram that he had returned a positive Covid-19 test on arrival at Narita airport. IOC President Thomas Bach said this week there was ‘zero’ risk of athletes in the village passing on the virus to Japanese or other resident of the village. Also Read | Tokyo 2020: IOC president Thomas Bach gets emotional after meeting Olympics official in person

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Two athletes COVID-19 positive in Beijing Games warmup events
3 years, 1 month ago

Two athletes COVID-19 positive in Beijing Games warmup events

The Hindu  

Organizers of February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing said on Friday that two foreign athletes had tested positive for COVID-19 in ongoing test events for the Games. The two who tested positive are among 1,500 competitors and staff who have come into the country since the test events began in early October, said Huang Chun, the deputy director-general of the pandemic …

Hospitalisations during Tokyo 2020 Games higher than initially reported, say organisers
3 years, 2 months ago

Hospitalisations during Tokyo 2020 Games higher than initially reported, say organisers

The Hindu  

A total of 25 people were hospitalised due to COVID-19 during the Tokyo Olympic Games, instead of the initially reported five, organisers said on Tuesday evening. "The initial five we reported was the figure for overseas residents who were hospitalised," explained Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto at a news conference. The once-delayed Tokyo 2020 Games opened in July while the …

Hospitalisations During Tokyo 2020 Olympics Higher Than Initially Reported, Say Organisers
3 years, 2 months ago

Hospitalisations During Tokyo 2020 Olympics Higher Than Initially Reported, Say Organisers

News 18  

A total of 25 people were hospitalised due to COVID-19 during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, instead of the initially reported five, organisers said on Tuesday evening. “The initial five we reported was the figure for overseas residents who were hospitalised,” explained Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto at a news conference. The once-delayed Tokyo 2020 Games opened in July while …

Japan’s leader says Olympics were ‘symbol of global unity’
3 years, 3 months ago

Japan’s leader says Olympics were ‘symbol of global unity’

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — At a U.N. General Assembly meeting packed with global gloom, Japan’s outgoing leader highlighted what he cast as a moment of inspiration: the Tokyo Olympics, controversially held in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. “While humanity has been faced with immeasurable hardships, the Tokyo 2020 Games proved to be a symbol of global unity among people around …

Tokyo Olympics didn’t worsen Covid-19 spread, data suggest
3 years, 3 months ago

Tokyo Olympics didn’t worsen Covid-19 spread, data suggest

Live Mint  

TOKYO : Initial data suggest that the spectator-free Tokyo Olympics didn’t exacerbate the Covid-19 outbreak in Japan, providing organizers of the Winter Games in China in February with one template for hosting the event. The findings leave open the possibility that Olympic visitors brought a new form of Covid-19 into Japan, although the institute said it didn’t see that mutation …

Tokyo Paralympics to be held without fans as COVID-19 cases surge
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Paralympics to be held without fans as COVID-19 cases surge

The Hindu  

All fans will be barred from the Paralympics in Japan because of the coronavirus pandemic, just as they were from the recently-completed Tokyo Olympics, organisers said Monday. The decision was announced after a meeting with International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons, organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa. READ : Tokyo Paralympics opens …

Did the Tokyo Olympics drive Japan’s COVID-19 surge?
3 years, 4 months ago

Did the Tokyo Olympics drive Japan’s COVID-19 surge?

Al Jazeera  

Since the Olympics began, Japan has seen a record surge in infections that has put its hospitals on the brink. “For the first time since the pandemic began, the entire world came together,” Thomas Bach said at the largely empty National Stadium in Tokyo. While it may be “challenging to prove a direct causal relationship” between the positive cases among …

How Tokyo Olympic organizers managed to keep COVID-19 mostly in check
3 years, 4 months ago

How Tokyo Olympic organizers managed to keep COVID-19 mostly in check

LA Times  

A couple take a photo at Symbol Promenade Park in July. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach lauded the measures in his wrap-up news conference: “All the figures are confirming that this concept of anti-coronavirus measures have worked.” In all, 436 people linked to the Olympics tested positive for COVID-19 in Japan since July 1. “The Games obviously won’t occur …

August 2 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results
3 years, 4 months ago

August 2 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

CNN  

People gather outside Tokyo's Ariake Urban Sports Park on July 31. Japan’s fans find a way: Many of Tokyo’s residents appear to be getting into the Olympic spirit. Tokyo remains under a state of emergency due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country, and polls ahead of the Games showed a majority of the Japanese public opposed …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: 21 new COVID-19 cases related to Games reported, no athletes among them
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: 21 new COVID-19 cases related to Games reported, no athletes among them

Firstpost  

The cumulative COVID-19 cases related to the Games now stand at 241. Tokyo: Twenty-one new COVID-19 cases related to the Olympics were reported by the organisers on Saturday, none of them athletes, amid surging infections in the host city. On Friday, the organisers had announced 27 new COVID-19 cases linked with the Olympics, including three athletes, the highest daily count …

Tokyo’s daily COVID cases hit record high during Olympics
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo’s daily COVID cases hit record high during Olympics

Al Jazeera  

New infections in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058, a day after Japan decided to extend states of emergency. Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Olympic host city Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, exceeding the 4,000-mark for the first time and overshadowing the Summer Games. The new records come a day after Japan decided …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: World No 1 golfer Jon Rahm watches Games from home, and he doesn't know why
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: World No 1 golfer Jon Rahm watches Games from home, and he doesn't know why

Firstpost  

Men’s golf began on Thursday at the Olympics, and the No 1 player in the world was nearly 6,000 miles away watching from home. “I can’t even tell you what happened.” The simple explanation is that he received a positive COVID-19 test the day before he planned to leave for Tokyo and fulfill his dream of playing in the Olympics, …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: World pole vault champion Sam Kendricks out of Games after testing positive for COVID-19
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: World pole vault champion Sam Kendricks out of Games after testing positive for COVID-19

Firstpost  

The charismatic 28-year-old, a bronze medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, is now in isolation, the USOPC added. Tokyo: Two-time world pole vault champion Sam Kendricks was ruled out of the Tokyo Games on Thursday after testing positive for coronavirus, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee confirmed. “We are saddened to confirm that Sam Kendricks tested positive for Covid-19 …

16 new Olympics-related COVID-19 cases, but no athlete and none from Games Village
3 years, 4 months ago

16 new Olympics-related COVID-19 cases, but no athlete and none from Games Village

India TV News  

The Olympic Games organisers announced 16 new COVID-19 cases associated with the event on Wednesday but none of them were athletes. It is for the first time in four days that no COVID-19 cases were reported among Olympic athletes. The total number cases in the Games village currently stands at 19. Rojer and his doubles partner Wesley Koolhof, who were …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Four new COVID-19 cases in Games Village, two of them athletes
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Four new COVID-19 cases in Games Village, two of them athletes

Firstpost  

Tokyo: Four residents of the Olympic Games village, including two athletes, are among the seven new COVID-19 cases that the event organisers announced on Tuesday. Rojer and his doubles partner Wesley Koolhof, who were scheduled to play Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus of New Zealand, pulled out of their second-round match on Monday following Rojer’s positive test result. The contingents …

Tokyo Olympics: Organisers report 4 new Covid-19 cases in Games village, two of them athletes
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Organisers report 4 new Covid-19 cases in Games village, two of them athletes

India Today  

The Tokyo Olympics organisers on Tuesday announced that four residents of the Olympic Games village, including two athletes, are among the seven new Covid-19 cases reported. Rojer and his doubles partner Wesley Koolhof, who were scheduled to play Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus of New Zealand, pulled out of their second-round match on Monday following Rojer''s the positive test result. …

Olympics: Tokyo records 2,848 Covid-19 cases on July 27, highest single-day spike since pandemic began
3 years, 4 months ago

Olympics: Tokyo records 2,848 Covid-19 cases on July 27, highest single-day spike since pandemic began

India Today  

Tokyo recorded 2848 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, July 27 making it the highest-ever tally in the Japanese capital since the pandemic began, officials said. The record jump in daily cases of coronavirus infections in the fifth wave of the pandemic fuelled by Delta variant is putting pressure on Tokyo's hospital, according to Reuters. India at Tokyo Olympics, Day 4: …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Jon Rahm withdraws from Games after testing positive for COVID-19
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Jon Rahm withdraws from Games after testing positive for COVID-19

Firstpost  

Rahm, who stormed to victory at the US Open in June, returned a positive sample after undergoing mandatory testing following his recent participation in the British Open. Tokyo: World number one Jon Rahm withdrew from the Olympics on Sunday after testing positive for Covid-19 for the second time in two months, the Spanish Olympic Committee confirmed. In June, he was …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Games linked COVID-19 cases go past 100, organisers announce 19 new cases
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Games linked COVID-19 cases go past 100, organisers announce 19 new cases

Firstpost  

The total number of cases directly linked to the Games stood at 106 on Friday with 11 of them athletes. Tokyo: The COVID-19 cases associated with the Olympic Games breached the 100-mark on Friday with the announcement of 19 new infections and the Czech contingent seemed among the worst hit after a fourth athlete – road cyclist Michal Schlegel – …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Dutch Taekwondo athlete Oogink, Czech beach volleyball player Nausch forced to pull out
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Dutch Taekwondo athlete Oogink, Czech beach volleyball player Nausch forced to pull out

Firstpost  

A total of 10 athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 in Tokyo so far. Tokyo: Czech beach volleyball player Marketa Nausch and Dutch taekwondo hope Reshmie Oogink were on Thursday forced out of the Olympic Games after testing positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of infected athletes in the city to 10. “Marketa Nausch has passed several tests, but …

Tokyo new virus cases near 2,000 a day before Olympics open
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo new virus cases near 2,000 a day before Olympics open

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Tokyo hit another six-month high in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, one day before the Olympics begin, as worries grow of a worsening of infections during the Games. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who is determined to hold the Olympics, placed Tokyo under a state of emergency on July 12, but daily cases have sharply increased since then. Also …

Japan former PM Abe to miss Olympic Games opening ceremony - reports
3 years, 5 months ago

Japan former PM Abe to miss Olympic Games opening ceremony - reports

The Hindu  

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who memorably dressed up as the titular plumber from the Super Mario video game to promote the Tokyo Olympics in Rio, will not attend the opening ceremony, public broadcaster NHK and other media reported. FOLLOW OUR COVERAGE OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES Abe stepped down from office last year due to health reasons, and his …

Tokyo Olympics: COVID-19 False Alarm Has Indian Officials Sweating
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: COVID-19 False Alarm Has Indian Officials Sweating

The Quint  

What added to the confusion was that while the ‘Infection Control Software' showed three Indians with symptoms on one day, it did not show any cases the next day. "Please advise on correct and factual status since in one report it shows three Indians in Tokyo with symptoms and in second report as nil," Batra messaged Dr Prem Verma, the …

Olympics: Tokyo 2020 Games all set to begin after year's delay amid protests, Covid-19 pandemic
3 years, 5 months ago

Olympics: Tokyo 2020 Games all set to begin after year's delay amid protests, Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is all set to get underway in Japan's capital city on Friday morning with a scaled-down opening ceremony due to the Covid-19 restrictions A year's wait is finally going to end for sports fans all across the world but the nervousness and anxiety levels will still be very high as Tokyo 2020 kicks-off amid protests and …

Op-Ed: Tokyo’s Olympics have turned nightmarish. L.A., are you watching?
3 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: Tokyo’s Olympics have turned nightmarish. L.A., are you watching?

LA Times  

Athletes are testing positive for the coronavirus, fans aren’t welcome, the Japanese are unhappy — but the powerbrokers insist the Games must go own. In May, as public opinion against the Tokyo Olympics surged along with COVID-19 cases in Japan, International Olympic Committee spokesperson Mark Adams uttered what could be the nine most terrifying words in the Olympic lexicon: “We …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Chilean taekwondo player out of Games after testing positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Japan
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Chilean taekwondo player out of Games after testing positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Japan

Firstpost  

Tokyo: Chilean Taekwondo player Fernanda Aguirre was on Wednesday ruled out of the Olympics after she tested positive for COVID-19 on arriving at the airport in Tokyo, her country’s Olympic body said. “Fernanda Aguirre has tested positive for COVID-19 in the tests carried out on her arrival in Japan,” Chile’s National Olympic Committee said in a statement. Aguirre travelled to …

Tokyo 2020: One Olympic athlete not residing in Games village tests positive for Covid-19, say organisers
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo 2020: One Olympic athlete not residing in Games village tests positive for Covid-19, say organisers

India Today  

An Olympic athlete not residing in the Games village has been tested positive for the Covid-19, said the organisers on Wednesday. The pandemic-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics began on Wednesday with Japanese women's softball pitcher Yukiko Ueno getting Games competition underway in what the head of the World Health Organization said was needed as "a celebration of hope". Rising Covid-19 cases …

WHO leader says virus risk inevitable at Tokyo Olympics
3 years, 5 months ago

WHO leader says virus risk inevitable at Tokyo Olympics

Associated Press  

TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics should not be judged by the tally of COVID-19 cases that arise because eliminating risk is impossible, the head of the World Health Organization told sports officials Wednesday as events began in Japan. “The mark of success in the coming fortnight is not zero cases,” Tedros said, noting the athletes who already tested positive in …

Tokyo Reports Its Highest COVID-19 Numbers Since January As First Olympic Games Start
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Reports Its Highest COVID-19 Numbers Since January As First Olympic Games Start

NPR  

Tokyo Reports Its Highest COVID-19 Numbers Since January As First Olympic Games Start Enlarge this image toggle caption Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images Two days before the Olympics' opening ceremony, Tokyo is reporting new COVID-19 cases at levels not seen since January — when Japan was enduring a record spike in coronavirus infections. The 1,832 new cases represent a …

The Tokyo Olympics will take place in a coronavirus bubble, but weak points are already on display
3 years, 5 months ago

The Tokyo Olympics will take place in a coronavirus bubble, but weak points are already on display

ABC  

The arrival of fresh-faced young athletes at Narita Airport was meant to be a turning point for these delayed and pandemic-tainted Tokyo Olympic Games. They also negotiated with local officials to let buses of Australian athletes head straight to the village, rather than idle outside the airport until the whole team was cleared to leave. The Australian Olympic Committee's protocols …

Tokyo 2020: Indian athletes battling Covid-19 scare and Olympics pressure at the Games village
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo 2020: Indian athletes battling Covid-19 scare and Olympics pressure at the Games village

India Today  

The pandemic-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics is set to get underway from Friday in what the head of the World Health Organization said was needed as ‘a celebration of hope’. Rising Covid-19 cases in host city Tokyo have cast a shadow over the world's largest sporting event, which is taking place largely without spectators. Olympics and Japanese officials have forged on …

Tokyo Olympics: WHO Chief Says All Must Play Part to Beat COVID-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: WHO Chief Says All Must Play Part to Beat COVID-19

News 18  

World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Tokyo Olympics Twitter message on Tuesday that COVID-19 can be defeated if all play their part. “Glad to be in Japan to address the International Olympics Committee,” Tedros said in his tweet. “May these Tokyo 2020 Olympics be a source of hope and unity to achieve vaccine equity and end …

Tokyo 2020: World should see safe Olympics, says Japan PM Suga
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo 2020: World should see safe Olympics, says Japan PM Suga

The Hindu  

The world needs to see that Japan can stage a safe Olympics, the country’s prime minister told sports officials on Tuesday ahead of the Tokyo Games. READ| “The world is faced with great difficulties,” Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told International Olympic Committee members in a closed-door meeting at a five-star hotel in Tokyo, adding “we can bring success to …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Two Mexican baseball players test positive for Covid-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Two Mexican baseball players test positive for Covid-19

India Today  

Mexican baseball authorities announced that two players had tested positive for Covid-19 just days before they were due to leave for the Tokyo Olympics. "It was decided to isolate the two players immediately in their rooms of the national team hotel, as well as all the players and team coaching staff, until the medical laboratory delivers the PCR tests," it …

How COVID-19 is transforming the Tokyo Olympics even before the Games start
3 years, 5 months ago

How COVID-19 is transforming the Tokyo Olympics even before the Games start

LA Times  

A worker disinfects a table tennis court at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Monday. At a news conference over the weekend, the president of the International Olympic Committee acknowledged that debate around the recently dubbed “Pandemic Games” has grown “more heated and more emotional.” “Many people feel under stress, they have to face uncertainty and then you react with some …

Tokyo Olympics: Organisers report 1st case of volunteer testing positive for Covid-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Organisers report 1st case of volunteer testing positive for Covid-19

India Today  

The Tokyo Olympic organisers on Tuesday announced the first case of a Games volunteer testing positive for COVID-19 along with seven more contractors associated with the event here. On Monday, Czech beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic became the third athlete at the Olympic Games Village to test positive for COVID-19, while an American alternate woman gymnast training in Chiba prefecture …

COVID-19 Cases Are Rising As Tokyo Olympics Get Underway
3 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19 Cases Are Rising As Tokyo Olympics Get Underway

NPR  

COVID-19 Cases Are Rising As Tokyo Olympics Get Underway NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Motoko Rich on the Japanese public's concern over the government's decision to hold the Olympics despite rising cases of COVID-19. OK, let's start with this cluster of COVID cases reported among athletes who've already arrived for the games. So …

Olympic athletes test positive in Tokyo days before Games
3 years, 5 months ago

Olympic athletes test positive in Tokyo days before Games

Associated Press  

TOKYO — A third athlete at the Olympic Village in Tokyo has tested positive for COVID-19, with the Czech Republic team reporting the case Monday of a beach volleyball player who could miss his first game. Perušič, who said he has been vaccinated, is the second member of the Czech delegation to test positive in Tokyo after a team official’s …

Tokyo Organisers Insist Olympic Village 'Safe Place to Stay'
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Organisers Insist Olympic Village 'Safe Place to Stay'

News 18  

Tokyo Games organisers insisted Monday that the Olympic Village is “a safe place to stay”, as fears of a coronavirus cluster emerged just days before the opening ceremony. “The IOC and Tokyo 2020 are absolutely clear that the Olympic Village is a safe place to stay,” Tokyo 2020 spokesperson Masa Takaya told reporters. “We cannot say there will be no …

Tokyo Olympics: Czech Beach Volleyball Player Tests Positive for Covid-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Czech Beach Volleyball Player Tests Positive for Covid-19

News 18  

Czech beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic has returned a positive COVID-19 test at the Games Village in Tokyo, the country’s Olympic Committee said on Monday. On Saturday, the team had said a staff member had tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Tokyo on a charter flight from Prague. “Unfortunately, beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic has a positive finding from …

Two-thirds of Japanese doubt pandemic Olympics can be safe, says poll
3 years, 5 months ago

Two-thirds of Japanese doubt pandemic Olympics can be safe, says poll

The Hindu  

Two-thirds of people in Japan do not believe the country can host a safe and secure Olympics amid a fresh wave of coronavirus infections, according to a survey published by the Asahi newspaper just four days before the opening ceremony in Tokyo. FOLLOW OUR COVERAGE OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES As COVID-19 cases rise in Tokyo, which is under a fourth …

Covid-19 hit Tokyo 2020: Czech Republic's beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic tests positive in Games village
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 hit Tokyo 2020: Czech Republic's beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic tests positive in Games village

India Today  

Czech Republic Olympic team has confirmed that their beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic has tested positive for Covid-19 in the Games Village in Tokyo on Monday. On Saturday, the Czech Olympic Committee reported a staff member had tested positive for Covid-19 upon landing in Tokyo for the Games starting on Friday. Perusic's case appears to be the fourth in the …

Tokyo 2020 sponsors withdraw TV advertising as local public sentiment turn against Olympics
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo 2020 sponsors withdraw TV advertising as local public sentiment turn against Olympics

India Today  

Tokyo 2020 Olympics sponsor Toyota will not run Games-related TV commercials because of lacklustre public support for the Olympics, with two-thirds of Japanese doubting a safe Games can be held during the COVID-19 pandemic, local media reported. COVID CASES Games officials on Sunday reported the first COVID-19 case among competitors in the athletes' village in Tokyo where 11,000 athletes are …

Tokyo Olympics: United States gymnast tests positive for Covid-19 at pre-training camp in Japan
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: United States gymnast tests positive for Covid-19 at pre-training camp in Japan

India Today  

A female gymnast is the latest Olympic athlete to test positive for Covid-19, officials said on Monday. The gymnast from the United States, a teenager, tested positive during her pre-Tokyo Olympic training camp in the city of Inzai, Chiba Prefecture. Another gymnast has been forced to enter isolation at a hotel room after she was found to be in close …

Covid-19 hit Tokyo 2020: 3 more Games-related cases detected, none athlete, confirm organisers
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 hit Tokyo 2020: 3 more Games-related cases detected, none athlete, confirm organisers

India Today  

A day after three sportspersons, two of them staying at the athletes Village, tested positive for the virus, the Games organisers confirmed that one Olympics concerned personnel and a contractor were among three Covid-19 cases detected on Monday. Their identities were not revealed by the organisers but the South African Football Association issued a statement to make that information clear. …

Zero risk? Virus cases test Olympic organizers’ assurances
3 years, 5 months ago

Zero risk? Virus cases test Olympic organizers’ assurances

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Two South African soccer players became the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, and other cases connected to the Tokyo Games were also confirmed Sunday, highlighting the herculean task organizers face to keep the virus contained while the world’s biggest sports event plays out. The two soccer players and a team video analyst …

Tokyo Olympics: Six British athletes isolating under COVID-19 protocols
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Six British athletes isolating under COVID-19 protocols

The Hindu  

Six British track and field athletes and two staff members have been forced to isolate after being identified as close contacts to an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 on their flight to Japan, the BOA confirmed on Sunday. "The British Olympic Association can confirm that six athletes and two staff members from the athletics team, who through no fault …

Six British Olympic athletes identified as contacts of Covid passenger on their plane to Japan
3 years, 5 months ago

Six British Olympic athletes identified as contacts of Covid passenger on their plane to Japan

Daily Mail  

Six British Olympic athletes and two team staff are self-isolating in their hotel rooms in Tokyo after being identified as close contacts of a passenger who subsequently tested positive for coronavirus on their plane to Japan, the British Olympic Association has announced. A spokesperson for the British Olympic Association said: 'The BOA can confirm that six athletes and two staff …

Tokyo Olympics: Refugee Team head Tegla Loroupe tests positive for Covid-19, says report
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Refugee Team head Tegla Loroupe tests positive for Covid-19, says report

Hindustan Times  

Former distance runner Tegla Loroupe, the chief of mission for the IOC's Refugee Olympic Team, has tested positive for COVID-19, two people with knowledge of her condition have told The Associated Press. Former distance runner Tegla Loroupe has tested positive for COVID-19, claims report Loroupe tested positive before the team was to depart its Doha, Qatar, training base for Tokyo. …

Tokyo Olympics: South Africa football team confirms three COVID-19 positive cases
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: South Africa football team confirms three COVID-19 positive cases

The Hindu  

South Africa has confirmed three positive COVID-19 cases in its football squad to take part at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, including players Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi. Video analyst Mario Masha also tested positive on arrival in Tokyo as the team prepares to face host Japan on Thursday. READ | Tokyo Olympics: Japan football team captain Yoshida asks to …

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