July 18, 2021, 7:34 am
Two athletes have become the first to test positive for Covid-19 in the Olympic Village (Adam Davy/PA)
Two athletes have become the first to test positive for Covid-19 in the Olympic Village, the International Olympic Committee has confirmed.
The pair, who are understood to represent the same country and sport, are among 10 new Games-related cases announced on Sunday.
A Games official was the first individual based in the Village to test positive on Saturday, on the same day IOC president Thomas Bach insisted the Games will be “safe and secure”.
Also among the 10 new positive cases connected to the Games is a third athlete who tested positive on arrival in Japan. The other positive cases were five ‘Games-related personnel’, one member of the media, and a contractor.
Updated: February 12, 2021, 12:06 pm
Yoshiro Mori is stepping down (Kim Kyung-hoon/AP)
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The beleaguered Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were plunged into a fresh crisis on Friday following the resignation of the president of the Tokyo organising committee, Yoshiro Mori.
Here, the PA news agency takes a look at the circumstances behind Mori’s departure and assesses its potential impact on the build-up to the delayed Games.
Top athletes should not jump the queue to get Covid-19 vaccinations so they can compete at the Olympics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has suggested.
There are simply other people, such as frontline health workers and vulnerable people, who are dying and need the valuable vaccine more urgently, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s executive director of the health emergencies programme, stated.
He told a WHO press conference in Geneva: “Right now we are laser-focused on solving our biggest problem which is vaccinating health workers in all countries and allowing people who are vulnerable and dying from this infection to access vaccine.”