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With the local Japanese public largely against hosting the Tokyo Games amid the COVID-19 pandemic, giving Olympic and Paralympic athletes vaccination priority is expectedly drawing flak as perceived preferential treatment.
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Kyodo Jun 6, 2021
With the local Japanese public largely against hosting the Tokyo Games amid the COVID-19 pandemic, giving Olympic and Paralympic athletes vaccination priority is expectedly drawing flak as perceived preferential treatment.
Paris-born, Japan-raised men’s handball team captain Remi Anri Doi was one of those who decided to be inoculated but only reached that conclusion after much anguish.
“At first I was going to refuse,” the 31-year-old said on the vaccination offered free to all games participants worldwide by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., with each athlete having a choice whether to undergo inoculation.
Handball: Japan beat Bahrain to finish 19th at men s world c ship
January 26, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Japan s players celebrate after the World Handball Championship against Bahrain in Cairo, Egypt, on Jan. 25, 2021. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany, Pool via AP) TOKYO (Kyodo) Japan finished 19th in the men s 32-team world handball championship in Cairo on Monday, making a huge stride from two years ago when they were last among 24 teams at the same tournament with no wins. Japan, who qualified from the preliminary round only for the second time, wrapped up the tournament by beating Bahrain 29-25 to place fifth among six teams in Main Round Group II.