With simply six days to go for the much-awaited Tokyo Olympics, the primary case of coronavirus has been detected on the Games village.
According to NHK World, the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organising committee stated the contaminated particular person is a international nationwide who was staying on the Athletes’ village.
NHK World cited sources claiming that the particular person discovered to be COVID-19 optimistic is a non-athlete.
Meanwhile, a sequence of adjustments on Thursday had been accredited in an effort to respect the Tokyo 2020 well being measures, with the purpose of making the expertise secure for everybody concerned whereas additionally preserving the essence of this distinctive second, when Olympians savour and have fun the top of their sports activities profession.
“Just like different features of the Olympic Games, the victory ceremonies for the awarding of Olympic medals will also be impacted by the COVID-19 countermeasures put in place to ensure safe and secure Games for all participants,” acknowledged an official IOC launch.
These adjustments observe on from the third model of the playbooks, printed in June 2021, which already specified that the victory ceremonies with medal shows would happen on the competitors venues, and that athletes and medal presenters can be required to put on masks.
The Tokyo 2020 playbooks and COVID-19 countermeasures present the framework for secure and safe Olympic Games. Implementing the playbooks, the ceremonies will happen respecting the next tips and situations:
Athletes, presenters and volunteers will put on masks in any respect occasions. Additional podium modules will probably be positioned between gold and silver medallists and gold and bronze medallists to permit for social distancing.
All the presenters will probably be vaccinated, and there will probably be just one IOC member and one International Federation consultant at every occasion.
The presenters will probably be ready for the athletes on the sphere of play, and won’t be half of the procession with the athletes. Trays with medals and presents (a flower bouquet and a small Tokyo 2020 mascot) will probably be positioned on a desk or a stand.
The presenters will decide up the trays from the tables or stands, and can carry the trays to the medallists. Athletes will take the medals and presents from the trays, and may have no contact with the presenters.
Athletes will keep on their very own podium module throughout the whole length of the ceremony. There will probably be no group picture on the gold medal podium.
Athletes, medal presenters and volunteers will probably be clearly and totally briefed earlier than the ceremonies on the rules they might want to observe.
