Tokyo Olympics: Six British athletes isolating under COVID-19 protocols
3 years, 8 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 of their own have been identified as close contacts of an individual -- not from the Team GB delegation --who tested positive for COVID-19 on their inbound flight on 15 July 2021," the BOA said in a statement. "The group all tested negative at the airport and have continued to test negative upon arrival into the country," the BOA added, saying it was operating its own extensive COVID-19 testing protocols and mitigation measures. "This is disappointing news for the athletes and staff, but we absolutely respect the protocols in place," the British team's Chef de Mission, Mark England, said.

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Olympics sees 40-plus Covid cases as global figures rise, says WHO
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Olympics sees 40-plus Covid cases as global figures rise, says WHO

The Hindu  

More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Australian medal hope Lani Pallister pulled out of the women’s 1500m freestyle after falling ill. Data from 84 countries shows that the percentage of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that …

Olympics see 40-plus Covid cases as global figures rise: WHO
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Olympics see 40-plus Covid cases as global figures rise: WHO

New Indian Express  

GENEVA: More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Australian medal hopes Lani Pallister pulled out of the women's 1500m freestyle after falling ill. Data from 84 countries shows that the percentage of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that …

Team GB on alert to stop spread of Covid throughout team after Adam Peaty positive
8 months ago

Team GB on alert to stop spread of Covid throughout team after Adam Peaty positive

The Telegraph  

Great Britain’s swimming team have implemented a range of anti-Covid mitigations and say they are unfazed by the news that Adam Peaty tested positive just hours after his Olympic silver on Sunday. Peaty, who said that he had released his positive Covid test result as “an advocate for complete transparency”, is still targeting a return to the pool for the …

Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team have tested positive for COVID-19
8 months ago

Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team have tested positive for COVID-19

Associated Press  

PARIS — Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team for the Paris Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19. Anna Meares, the chef de mission for the Australian team in Paris, said the COVID cases have been confined to the water polo team. “We treat COVID no differently to any other respiratory illness, but we want to ensure that we …

Australia Athletes Barred from Other Commonwealth Games Venues Over COVID Risk
2 years, 8 months ago

Australia Athletes Barred from Other Commonwealth Games Venues Over COVID Risk

News 18  

Australian athletes will be banned from supporting their team mates at other Commonwealth Games events at Birmingham due to the risk of COVID-19 transmission, team chef de mission Petria Thomas said. “Our primary focus is that we can get our athletes to the starting line and they are performance ready," Thomas told News Corp media on Wednesday. Athletes were subject …

Three positive Covid tests confirmed in New Zealand’s tour party
2 years, 10 months ago

Three positive Covid tests confirmed in New Zealand’s tour party

The Independent  

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Olympic organizers address complaints about isolation hotels
3 years, 1 month ago

Olympic organizers address complaints about isolation hotels

Associated Press  

BEIJING — Olympic organizers say they’re addressing complaints about isolation conditions for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus and are working to ensure they have clean rooms, better food and access to training equipment and the internet. We have to make sure that the expectations are met,” said Christophe Dubi, the International Olympic Committee’s executive director for the games. …

India’s Winter Olympic contingent Covid-free after manager found negative in retests
3 years, 1 month ago

India’s Winter Olympic contingent Covid-free after manager found negative in retests

The Hindu  

A day after testing positive for COVID-19, the manager of India’s Winter Olympics contingent, Mohammad Abbas Wani, has returned negative results in two retests conducted in the last 24 hours, the Indian Olympic Association said on February 2. “The manager of Indian team Mr. Abbas Wani tested negative in the 2 tests done on him in last 24 hours. “Thank …

Olympic advisers at ease with COVID rate, see cases falling
3 years, 1 month ago

Olympic advisers at ease with COVID rate, see cases falling

Associated Press  

BEIJING — With more than 30 new COVID-19 cases being detected daily ahead of the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Wednesday they aren’t worried and expect numbers to drop within days. Eleven people have been treated at the hospital for a symptom among the 232 positive tests registered since Jan. 23, though “none of those are seriously ill in any way,” …

Australian Olympic athlete tests positive for COVID-19, alpine skier ruled out of Games with knee injury
3 years, 2 months ago

Australian Olympic athlete tests positive for COVID-19, alpine skier ruled out of Games with knee injury

ABC  

Australia's Winter Olympics team have been hit by a positive COVID-19 test while alpine skier Madi Hoffman will miss the Games after suffering a serious knee injury. Key points: The unidentified Australian athlete is isolating after testing positive on arrival at Beijing airport and is awaiting a second test If the second test returns a negative result the athlete may …

EXPLAINER: How COVID tests, isolation will work at Olympics
3 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: How COVID tests, isolation will work at Olympics

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Athletes and others headed to the Olympics face a multitude of COVID-19 testing hurdles as organizers seek to catch any infections early and keep the virus at bay. A positive test could mean athletes sitting out the Beijing Games — perhaps even if they’re no longer contagious. They eased the testing threshold that requires isolation but said …

COVID-19 outbreak at SAI Bengaluru; 33 test positive including 16 hockey players
3 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19 outbreak at SAI Bengaluru; 33 test positive including 16 hockey players

Firstpost  

Majority of them are asymptomatic and all of them have been isolated, SAI said but did not divulge the identities of those infected Bengaluru: Sixteen members of the senior men’s hockey team were among the 33 COVID-19 cases detected on Friday at the Sports Authority of India’s National Centre of Excellence here. “16 athletes and one coach from the Senior …

How Canada will watch the Beijing Olympics: A CBC exec on the balance of sports, safety and ‘Coronation Street’
3 years, 2 months ago

How Canada will watch the Beijing Olympics: A CBC exec on the balance of sports, safety and ‘Coronation Street’

New York Times  

One day after NBC announced it would not be sending play-by-play voices or game analysts to cover the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the executive leading Canada’s broadcast coverage fielded a series of questions from The Athletic about how the CBC would navigate an event marked by so many unknowns. Chris Wilson, the executive director, sports and Olympics, with the public …

Clap, don’t chant: China aims for ‘Zero COVID’ Olympics
3 years, 2 months ago

Clap, don’t chant: China aims for ‘Zero COVID’ Olympics

Associated Press  

Athletes will need to be vaccinated — or face a long quarantine — take tests daily and wear masks when not competing or training. Yes, athletes and other participants including team staff and news media need to be fully vaccinated to be allowed in the designated Olympic areas without completing a 21-day quarantine. Mogul skier Hannah Soar said she’s avoiding …

Here's How The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Aims To Combat COVID
3 years, 2 months ago

Here's How The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Aims To Combat COVID

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Athletes will need to be vaccinated — or face a long quarantine — take tests daily and wear masks when not competing or training. Yes, athletes and other participants including team staff and news media need to be fully vaccinated to be allowed in the designated Olympic areas without completing a 21-day quarantine. Mogul skier Hannah Soar …

Two athletes COVID-19 positive in Beijing Games warmup events
3 years, 4 months 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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 …

England vs India: Manchester Test in doubt after another member of India's support staff tests Covid-19 positive
3 years, 6 months ago

England vs India: Manchester Test in doubt after another member of India's support staff tests Covid-19 positive

India Today  

Another member of the India cricket team's support staff tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, September 9, putting the 5th Test and final Test between England and India in doubt. Notably, India players took the field for the 4th Test at Oval in London last week despite head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar …

First Paralympic gold medal goes to Paige Greco of Australia
3 years, 7 months ago

First Paralympic gold medal goes to Paige Greco of Australia

The Independent  

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Tokyo Paralympics to be held without fans as COVID-19 cases surge
3 years, 7 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 …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Australian athletes face 'cruel' 28 days' quarantine upon return
3 years, 7 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Australian athletes face 'cruel' 28 days' quarantine upon return

Firstpost  

The entire Australian team, who won 17 gold medals and 46 in total, are fully vaccinated and were tested for Covid-19 almost daily in Japan. A group of Australian Olympic athletes were Wednesday facing 28 days in quarantine on return from Tokyo in a move slammed as “cruel” and “uncaring” as concerns mount over their mental wellbeing. Australian Olympic Committee …

Did the Tokyo Olympics drive Japan’s COVID-19 surge?
3 years, 7 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 …

Tokyo Olympics: COVID-19 restrictions, no fans and more questions for the IOC
3 years, 7 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: COVID-19 restrictions, no fans and more questions for the IOC

The Hindu  

"So what are you actually going to do in Tokyo?" The role COVID-19 played during the Olympics Coronavirus case numbers exploded here during the Games, reaching record levels in Tokyo since the Olympics got underway. Seeing intense euphoria and acute physical pain simultaneously etched into the faces of American swimmer Caeleb Dressel, British BMX cyclist Bethany Shriever and Ugandan steeplechase …

Team GB’s ‘trailblazers’ produce ‘miracle of Tokyo’ with 65 medals and zero Covid cases
3 years, 7 months ago

Team GB’s ‘trailblazers’ produce ‘miracle of Tokyo’ with 65 medals and zero Covid cases

The Independent  

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How Tokyo Olympic organizers managed to keep COVID-19 mostly in check
3 years, 7 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 …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: 21 new COVID-19 cases related to Games reported, no athletes among them
3 years, 7 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, 7 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 …

Olympics COVID protocols contrast Tokyo’s lockdown fatigue
3 years, 8 months ago

Olympics COVID protocols contrast Tokyo’s lockdown fatigue

Al Jazeera  

Residents have largely returned to the streets of Tokyo amid a surge in infection as Olympics remain closely controlled. Quarantined Dutch athletes have found it “very distressing” to be confined to a “very small” area, not allowed to get fresh air, the team’s technical director, Maurits Hendriks, said. Tokyo’s crowded street Outside, state of emergency Tokyo-style bears little resemblance to …

24 new Games-related COVID-19 cases reported, IOC defends Olympics
3 years, 8 months ago

24 new Games-related COVID-19 cases reported, IOC defends Olympics

India TV News  

24 new Games-related COVID-19 cases reported, IOC defends Olympics The host city is in a state of emergency with COVID-19 infections at a record high. The Tokyo Olympics organisers on Thursday announced 24 new COVID-19 cases, including three athletes, the highest one-day figures so far at the Games, even as the organisers insisted that the showpiece is not behind the …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: World No 1 golfer Jon Rahm watches Games from home, and he doesn't know why
3 years, 8 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: Australia's athletics team goes into isolation after American athlete tests COVID positive
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Australia's athletics team goes into isolation after American athlete tests COVID positive

India TV News  

Tokyo Olympics: Australia's athletics team goes into isolation after American athlete tests COVID positive The entire Australian track and field team has been put in isolation after an American pole vaulter tested positive for COVID-19 The Australian track and field contingent has been put into precautionary isolation after USA's world-champion pole vaulter Sam Kendricks tested positive for COVID-19. Australian pole …

16 new Olympics-related COVID-19 cases, but no athlete and none from Games Village
3 years, 8 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 …

Alternate Olympic surfer: Rival ‘selfish’ for COVID report
3 years, 8 months ago

Alternate Olympic surfer: Rival ‘selfish’ for COVID report

Associated Press  

ICHINOMIYA, Japan — An aggrieved Olympic surfing alternate forced into a futile race against time to catch a wave in Japan is slamming a competitor’s officials as “selfish” for not being transparent about his rival’s positive COVID-19 test that cost him a shot at the sport’s historic Summer Games debut. That meant it became impossible for Bonomelli or the next …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Four new COVID-19 cases in Games Village, two of them athletes
3 years, 8 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 …

KLM staff not tested for Covid before flight to Olympics
3 years, 8 months ago

KLM staff not tested for Covid before flight to Olympics

NL Times  

The crew on KLM flight KL861 was not tested for coronavirus infections before the flight that transported a large number of Dutch athletes to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Dutch airline confirmed to RTL Nieuws. On Tuesday morning, Japanese media reported that two more athletes tested positive, including a Dutch tennis player. Newspaper AD, which had two reporters on …

Tokyo Olympics: Organisers report 4 new Covid-19 cases in Games village, two of them athletes
3 years, 8 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, 8 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: …

Dutch tennis player tests positive for COVID, organizers announce 16 new cases at Tokyo Olympics
3 years, 8 months ago

Dutch tennis player tests positive for COVID, organizers announce 16 new cases at Tokyo Olympics

India TV News  

Dutch tennis player Jean-Julien Rojer was forced to withdraw from the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19 even as the organisers announced 16 new infections at the ongoing Games here on Monday. 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 …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: IOA requests government to allow contingent to enter country without COVID-19 test report
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: IOA requests government to allow contingent to enter country without COVID-19 test report

Firstpost  

In a letter addressed to Sports Secretary Ravi Mittal, Batra said since the Olympic contingent members have been fully vaccinated and undergone tests on a regular basis in Tokyo, they be exempted from the requirement of showing RT PCR negative test reports Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra has requested the government to allow entry of the athletes and officials …

Tokyo Olympics: Dutch rowing coach tests positive for COVID-19
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Dutch rowing coach tests positive for COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

Some 132 people accredited to the Summer Games have tested positive for COVID since July 1. Dutch rowing coach Josy Verdonkschot has tested positive for COVID-19, the Netherlands Olympic Committee said on Sunday and has gone into a 10-day quarantine in Japan. Another staff member on the Dutch rowing team, as well as Dutch taekwondo competitor Reshmie Oogink and skateboarder …

Canceled party: Scrubbed match silences Olympic beach venue
3 years, 8 months ago

Canceled party: Scrubbed match silences Olympic beach venue

Associated Press  

TOKYO — The Olympic beach volleyball tournament got off to the quintessential coronavirus-era start. The event’s very first scheduled match at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games was canceled on Saturday morning because a Czech player tested positive for COVID-19. very happy it is finally here.” In a sport that thrives on its beach party vibe, with dance teams that did the …

The Pandemic Olympics, Vaccine Misinformation, and More Coronavirus News
55 years, 2 months ago

The Pandemic Olympics, Vaccine Misinformation, and More Coronavirus News

Wired  

The pandemic Olympics, vaccine misinformation, and reinstated Covid-19 passes. Headlines The Olympics could be a Covid-19 ‘super-evolutionary’ event A year later than planned, the 2020 Summer Olympics kicked off in Tokyo today. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga recently admitted that it’s been hard to drum up enthusiasm among Japanese citizens amid pandemic fears. Vaccine misinformation and hesitancy keep inoculation rates down …

Tokyo Olympics: Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais tests positive for COVID-19
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais tests positive for COVID-19

The Hindu  

Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais has announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the sport’s Olympic debut in Japan. The Portuguese Olympic team said Morais would not travel to Tokyo as planned. I will be following every second of our team.” The International Surfing Association had no immediate comment but its deadline to register alternates is Saturday at …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Games linked COVID-19 cases go past 100, organisers announce 19 new cases
3 years, 8 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 linked Covid cases go past 100, organisers announce 19 new cases
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics linked Covid cases go past 100, organisers announce 19 new cases

Deccan Chronicle  

Tokyo: The COVID-19 cases associated with the Tokyo Olympics 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 -- tested positive for the virus. "The fourth athlete and the sixth Czech member of the team, who did not avoid …

How safe are the Tokyo Olympics from COVID-19?
3 years, 8 months ago

How safe are the Tokyo Olympics from COVID-19?

Al Jazeera  

Experts say Olympic bubbles are already ‘broken’ and that safety measures at the COVID-delayed Summer Games are neither adequate nor properly enforced. Hotel workers are “exasperated by their supposed roles in maintaining the bubble around Olympic delegations”, the newspaper said, quoting one manager as saying, “It’s not even our job to begin with.” Kenji Shibuya, a prominent Japanese health expert, …

Long and short of the much-awaited Tokyo Olympics
3 years, 8 months ago

Long and short of the much-awaited Tokyo Olympics

Live Mint  

The Tokyo Olympics, which have been delayed by more than a year because of the covid-19 pandemic, finally begin today under a strict covid protocol that includes a ban on spectators. Even though the Tokyo Games are taking place in the summer of 2021, they are still referred to as the 2020 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee said women’s participation …

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