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Guinea withdraw from Tokyo 2020 Olympics over "resurgence of COVID-19 variants" By Geoff Berkeley at the Main Press Centre in Tokyo Thursday, 22 July 2021 Guinea has decided not to send its delegation to the 2020 Olympic Games here because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been announced. A total of five athletes were set to represent the west African nation at the Games which are due to open tomorrow against the backdrop of the global health crisis. But Guinean Minister of Sports Sanoussy Bantama Sow has announced that the country will not be participating due to a "resurgence of COVID-19 va...

Four competitors including a shooting world number one saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed yesterday after testing positive for the coronavirus. British shooter Amber Hill, top-ranked in the women’s skeet, was forced to pull out before she departed for Japan after testing positive. “After five years of training and preparation, I’m absolutely devastated,” she said in a team statement. Table tennis player Pavel Sirucek became the third member of the Czech delegation to test positive for Covid-19 in the Athletes’ Village, the team said. The Tokyo Olympics are being staged in biosecu...

Yuto Horigome, of Japan, trains during a street skateboarding practice session at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 21 in Tokyo. (AP Photo) LONDON/ TOKYO--Top-ranked shooter Amber Hill of Britain will miss the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19, she announced Wednesday. The No. 1 in women's skeet said she tested positive Tuesday night shortly before her scheduled departure for Tokyo, and that she was in self-isolation with no symptoms. “Broken is about the only way to describe the pain I’m feeling right now,” the 23-year-old Hill wrote on her Instagram account. British te...

2 more Olympic athletes among 91 total Tokyo virus cases July 22, 2021 GMT The Olympic Rings and a Tokyo 2020 sign are pictured inside Yokohama Baseball Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Yokohama, Japan. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) The Olympic Rings and a Tokyo 2020 sign are pictured inside Yokohama Baseball Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Yokohama, Japan. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) TOKYO (AP) — Two athletes were among four residents of the Olympic Village who were added to the tally Thursday of people accredited for the Tokyo Games w...

9 & 10 News July 22, 2021 AP The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic: A third athlete from the Czech Republic has tested positive for COVID-19 at the Tokyo Games. The Czech team says beach volleyball player Markéta Sluková has entered a quarantine hotel, where two other athletes and two other coaches in its national delegation are staying. Another Czech beach volleyball player, Ondřej Perušič, tested positive this week. Table tennis player Pavel Sirucek also tested positive. The Cze...