: Tokyo 2020: Four athletes out of the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19 #IndiaNEWS Four competitors including a shooting world number one saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed on Wednesday

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Tokyo 2020: Four athletes out of the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19 #IndiaNEWS
Four competitors including a shooting world number one saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed on Wednesday 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 biosecure “bubble� conditions, with athletes tested daily and under orders to stay socially distanced and wear masks when not competing, training, eating or sleeping.But the latest cases show that competitors are treading a fine line.Chilean taekwondo competitor Fernanda Aguirre was “devastated and very sad�, she said on social media, after testing positive on arrival in Japan from a training camp in Uzbekistan.“(She) is asymptomatic and in good health, but unfortunately will not be able to compete because the Japanese authorities impose a 10-day quarantine,� a Chilean Olympic committee statement said.The 21-year-old, who won a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games, has been moved to an isolation facility, as has her coach.Meanwhile Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs described herself as “heartbroken�...Read more

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