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• What happens if (and when) an athlete tests positive at the Olympics? People wearing face masks chat before parting at a train station in Tokyo, Friday, July 9, 2021. The 2020 Summer Olympic Games will play out over the next two weeks in Tokyo. | Hiro Komae, Associated PressAthletes are beginning to arrive in Tokyo, and virus cases are beginning to increase The delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics are infectious — in all the worst ways. Usually, the Olympics brings people together from around the world in an air of excitement. This year,…
• First resident of Olympic Village tests positive for COVID An employee checks the body temperature of a man during press preview of the Village Plaza as part of the Olympic and Paralympic Village media tour on June 20, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. | Takashi Aoyama/Getty ImagesOfficials said it was not an athlete with the the Games opening in just under a week in Tokyo. TOKYO — The first resident of the Olympic Village has tested positive for COVID-19, Tokyo Olympic organizers said on Saturday. Officials said it was not…
• Australia’s Olympic training camp locked down after Covid scare Australia’s Olympic squad has already begun to arrive in Tokyo, but members of the Athletics team were locked down in Cairns (Picture: Getty)Australia’s entire athletics team for the Tokyo Olympics was quarantined in their rooms on Saturday at their pre-Games training camp in Cairns following a Covid-19 scare. An inconclusive test had been returned by an unnamed official who travelled from Melbourne but subsequent tests have so far been negative, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) confirmed on Sunday. Athletes have…
• First positive COVID tests for athletes in Olympic Village National banners hang from balconies at an athlete’s village Sunday as Tokyo prepares for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The pandemic-delayed games open July 23 without spectators at most venues. | Charlie Riedel/APTwo athletes living in the Tokyo Olympic Village have tested positive for COVID-19, the first to do so with the Games opening Friday. TOKYO — Two athletes living in the Olympic Village have tested positive for COVID-19, the first to do so with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday.…
• Utah college athletes — past and present — who are Tokyo-bound The Olympic rings installed by the Nippon Bashi bridge in Tokyo are pictured on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Over 11,000 athletes representing 206 nations will compete in the Games in Tokyo, Japan from July 23-August 8, including 15 athletes with Utah college ties. | Hiro Komae, Associated PressOver 11,000 athletes representing 206 nations will compete in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23 to Aug. 8, including 15 athletes with Utah college ties The Summer Olympic Games are…
• A third California venue has nixed Matt Gaetz' and Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'America First' tour stop Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A third venue has canceled Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene's "America First" event in California. A spokesperson for the city of Anaheim said the event venue decided to scrub the event over safety concerns. Last week a hotel declined to host the event and a convention center in Riverside canceled the event on Friday. See more stories on Insider's business page. A third event venue has…
• The waiting Games: Olympians navigate strict rules in Tokyo Takashi Aoyama/Getty ImagesThe so-called playbook for athletes at the Tokyo Olympics provides a guide to a “safe and successful Games.” Sydney McLaughlin turns 22 three days after the final of the 400-meter hurdles, in which she might win Olympic gold and may even lower her current world record. Her big birthday plans? “Try and find a cupcake and then blow out the candles by myself,” McLaughlin said. Welcome to the no-fun Olympics, where celebrations and camaraderie will be muted by…
• IOC's Bach gets mixed reaction in one-day visit to Hiroshima IOC President Thomas Bach got a mixed reception in his visit on Friday to Hiroshima to mark the first day of the so-called Olympic Truce. Such a one-day visit by a dignitary would ordinarily be routine a week ahead, but the Olympics are set to open next week with Tokyo under a state of emergency and with a substantial part of the population opposed to the games being held during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bach's vice president John Coates also appeared…
• Cases surge to 6-month high in Tokyo a week before Olympics New coronavirus cases surged to 1,308 in Tokyo on Thursday, a six-month high, as fears rise of a possible dramatic increase that could flood hospitals during the Olympics that start in eight days. Tokyo is under a fourth state of emergency, which began Monday and requires restaurants and bars to close early and not serve alcohol through the Olympics, which start July 23. Thursday’s tally is the highest since 1,485 were recorded on Jan. 21, when Japan was under an…
• After three California venues refused to host Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'America First' event, the duo is having a 'protest' instead Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, Alex Wong/Getty Images Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are in California for their "America First" tour stop. Three event venues in Southern California have canceled hosting the event. Greene and Gaetz will now have a "Freedom of Speech Peaceful Protest" at Riverside City Hall instead. See more stories on Insider's business page. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are holding a "Freedom of Speech Peaceful Protest" in Riverside, California on Saturday evening after three…