Warning to Olympic athletes: Follow the rules at the Tokyo Games, or else
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Updated: 4:25 PM PDT Jun 15, 2021
By STEPHEN WADE, AP Sports Writer
Warning to Olympic athletes: Follow the rules at the Tokyo Games, or else
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Updated: 4:25 PM PDT Jun 15, 2021
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athletes who break Covid 19 rules at the summer olympics could be kicked out of the Games organizers announced in the third and final olympic playbook. That punishment ranges from warnings to disqualification, to financial sanctions. What's clear here is that participants will have to go through major logistical hurdles and bureaucracy to pull these games off, Athletes will be tested twice within 96 hours of leaving for Japan, they'll be tested upon arrival and tested daily after that. They're asked to wear masks as much as possible to avoid public transportation and to only go to designated places. There will be social distancing instead of the usual mixing, mingling and parting. If athletes test positive for COVID-19, they're asked to take designated transport to an isolation facility that's outside of the Olympic village. If they test positive during the games, they cannot compete. Their close contacts would then be tested and monitored, athletes will be contact trace throughout the games and GPS will be used if a positive cases found, Organisers have also said they expect more than 80% of the Olympic village to be vaccinated. Overseas fans have already been banned. But despite all of these restrictions, the medical community and the public here in Japan is still worried. The Lancet Medical Journal published an op ed saying that there is still a risk. These games could seed COVID-19 outbreaks in Japan and around the world. When participants returned to their home countries, Japan is only fully vaccinated about 5% of its population. While the government aims to speed up the rollout to a million doses per day, that would still mean the majority of the population in Japan would not be vaccinated by the time the games begin. Selena wang CNN Tokyo.