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Tokyo Olympics: Samoa pulls out over concern at Covid-19 infection rate in Japan

RNZ11:12, Jul 01 2021 Lars Baron/Getty Images Vaipava Nevo Ioane lifts weights at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Samoan government forbidding its team to travel to Tokyo for the delayed 2020 Games. Samoa s caretaker government has said the country s athletes will not be competing at the Tokyo Olympics. However, the team has not been officially notified of any withdrawal. A meeting is scheduled on Thursday afternoon to discuss the team s involvement in the Games. The caretaker Cabinet decided on Wednesday to prevent Team Samoa from travelling to Japan due to Covid-19. READ MORE:

Samoa caretaker govt pulls country s team from Tokyo Olympics

However, the team has not been officially notified of any withdrawal. A meeting is scheduled this afternoon to discuss the team s involvement in the Games. The caretaker Cabinet decided on Wednesday to prevent Team Samoa from travelling to Japan due to Covid-19. The caretaker Minister of Communications, Afamasaga Rico Tupa i, said that with reports Japan has a 500 daily infection rate, the Cabinet decided prevention takes precedence. Afamasaga said the decision was made because the chance of infection was too high. However, Samoa s Olympic committee said later on Thursday that it was only withdrawing its weightlifting team from the Tokyo Games.

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