she stuck with it and it s going to help her family enormously to have one this metal. so a new star for us gymnastics. but what about simone biles? well, she still hasn t confirmed whether or not she will compete in any of the individual finals next week after pulling out of both the team and individual all around finals which she qualified for on all apparatus despite not performing at her best. but on thursday she was there, in the stands, supporting her team mate sunisa to gold. here is cindy boren again. she and her team mates were in the stands, mask stop, and one of the voices he could hear echoing in the empty stadium belonged to simone biles. she s been very outspoken about being supportive at a time, now, when so many gymnasts need it. and she never really felt that she got it herself until now, she has about the outpouring of support since her decision to drop out. well injapan the olympics are still sharing the headlines with coronavirus. japan has surpassed 10,000 cases
but for the main spectators, the limit will be 10,000. for each venue or 50% of the venue if it is a small being viewed, then it will be less than 10,000. well we already have the first olympic athlete injapan to test positive. it s a member of the uganda s squad. here are the the group of ugandans at tokyo s narita airport on sunday. the unnamed member is now quarantining at a government designated facility. and this is only the second group of foreign athletes to have arrived. the rest of the group continued on to osaka in the west ofjapan where they re training. i should add entire group tested negative before leaving uganda and everyone has been fully vaccinated. uganda though is currently in lockdown because of a surge in cases. and this is unlikely to go down well injapan. polls suggest public opinion is against the the games taking place now and the low rate of vaccinations injapan plays into that. around 16% of japan s population has received a covid 19 vaccination dose so fa