Covid Cases at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[dodge 1,024]

It won’t matter in the end.  Some countries have lost medals to poor judging. Some because of injured or ill athletes. Even freak weather has impacted results in some events. 
 

There are literally hundreds of factors at play and COVID is just another one. 

[Vektor 3,326]

1 minute ago, dodge said:

It won’t matter in the end.  Some countries have lost medals to poor judging. Some because of injured or ill athletes. Even freak weather has impacted results in some events. 
 

There are literally hundreds of factors at play and COVID is just another one. 

Apart from weather which only impacts outdoor sports to various degrees, all of the others happen because of human error which has been part of sport contests since their inception. A highly infectious disease that you have zero control over is not comparable to any of the other factors, it's like if the Olympics would introduce a lottery at the events which results in athletes getting DNS without doing anything wrong and anything being visibly wrong with them or any of the officiating personnel making bad calls. 

[Orangehair43 251]

23 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Apart from weather which only impacts outdoor sports to various degrees, all of the others happen because of human error which has been part of sport contests since their inception. A highly infectious disease that you have zero control over is not comparable to any of the other factors, it's like if the Olympics would introduce a lottery at the events which results in athletes getting DNS without doing anything wrong and anything being visibly wrong with them or any of the officiating personnel making bad calls. 

Through even then they will be cases where Human error allowed people to catch Covid. Some will follow the rules and catch it but others will have broken rules and caught it or spread it to others that way. 

[rybak 3,179]

Apparently  Eda Erdem Dündar (volleyball) is tested positive too.

[Jan Linha 590]

finally released who the very first case in our team. It is a doctor who was called in by Czech national tennis team and HAS NOT BEEN VACCINATED ??. How can you come to the Olympics as a doctor in this period and aren't vaccinated??????????

[Grassmarket 3,379]

2 hours ago, JamDH said:

It's being reported that the issue is more finances than anything, seems strange to only realise that less than 2 days from the OC if that is the case. I hope the athletes didn't just learn of this. It just gets worse and worse ?

Only 3 out of the 4 Guineas left, then.

[Vic Liu 1,672]

3 hours ago, rybak said:

Apparently  Eda Erdem Dündar (volleyball) is tested positive too.

Really? What I read from Chinese media is that she is close contact of positive personnel and under soft quarantine. She is still expected to play if tested negative 6 hours before the game.

[PHI2019 262]

Philippines sends home one of its coaches after he tests positive for COVID-19

 

PH sends home one coach from Tokyo Olympics after positive COVID-19 test

[Olympian1010 7,951]

Haven’t seen any names reported yet.

[mrv86 3,131]

7 hours ago, JamDH said:

It's being reported that the issue is more finances than anything, seems strange to only realise that less than 2 days from the OC if that is the case. I hope the athletes didn't just learn of this. It just gets worse and worse ?

One would think the Olympic Solidarity money could be used to avoid this elbarrasing things.

 

Instead is used to pay for luxury accomodation and prostitutes for Bach & Co. (plus all the Aussie dollars already given by Brisbane)