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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. gymnast tests positive for COVID-19 days before Olympics opening ceremony
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Tokyo With just four days to go until the opening ceremony, the COVID-19 pandemic is casting an ever longer shadow over the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Officials have reported at least 12 new coronavirus cases connected with the Games since Sunday, including a U.S. gymnast and the first cases among athletes inside the Olympic village.
Several of the latest COVID-related losses will be felt sorely by Team USA.
On Monday, the Japanese city hosting the U.S. gymnastics team for pre-Games training said a female gymnast from the team had tested positive. The name of the athlete, who is in her teens, has been withheld by the city of Inzai, in Chiba Prefecture, where she had been training.
In a statement released on Monday, USA Gymnastics confirmed that a replacement athlete for the women's artistic gymnastics team had tested positive and that "the local government determined that the affected replacement athlete and one other replacement athlete would be subject to additional quarantine restrictions."
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U.S. gymnast tests positive for COVID-19 days before Olympics opening ceremony (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)1. Just my personal opinion
This Olympics is going to be a disaster. They will do their best to cover it up, but it will not be one to remember.
Nevilledog
(51,070 posts)2. I agree 💯%
lindysalsagal
(20,666 posts)3. I wouldn't trust some countries to withhold athletes with positive cases
It's gonna be a super-spreader.
Nevilledog
(51,070 posts)4. Whole team of U.S. Gymnasts have been placed in isolation.