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- The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is forgoing a stay at the Olympic Village during the Tokyo games, choosing instead to board at a nearby hotel.
- Simone Biles’ coach Cecile Landi tweeted about the hotel plan, prior to reports that alternate gymnast Kara Eaker tested positive for COVID-19.
- “We feel like we can control the athletes and our safety better in a hotel setting,” Landi said.
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is forgoing a stay at the Olympic Village during the Tokyo games, choosing instead to board at a nearby hotel.
USA Gymnastics said Tuesday that the team planned to stay at a hotel all along, NBC reported. Simone Biles’ coach Cecile Landi tweeted about the hotel plan prior to reports that alternate gymnast Kara Eaker tested positive for COVID-19.
“It was also a decision that we all made together,” the coach, Cecile Landi, wrote Sunday on Twitter. “We know it isn’t ideal during a pandemic. We feel like we can control the athletes and our safety better in a hotel setting!”
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The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee told NBC in an email that it “is not in a position to comment on individual team performance decisions.”
At least 67 athletes and others affiliated with the games have tested positive for the virus this month.
“We understand the public’s concern over the positive cases that have been reported so far, including the athlete’s village, and we will continue to handling these cases appropriately based on protocols we’ve established with the guidance of medical experts,” Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto said Tuesday, according to NBC.
“Since July 1, so far close to 30,000 people have arrived from overseas, of which 31 people tested positive for Covid, which means the infection rate is roughly 0.1 percent.”
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach assured Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in a meeting last week that 85 percent of the athletes and officials living in the Olympic Village would be fully vaccinated, adding that nearly 100 percent of IOC members and IOC staff were “vaccinated or immune.”
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 1,387 new cases on Tuesday, marking the first time this week that cases have topped 1,000. Meanwhile, the rising cases represent a 49 percent increase in the seven-day rolling average from the previous week.
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