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While the Olympic games were cancelled due to the pandemic last year, Japan and host city Tokyo ironically are experiencing higher COVID-19 case numbers than last summer, with a 7-day average of about 5,000 cases.
To mitigate spread, the Olympics are bubbled and devoid of fans. So how are precautions playing out on the ground?
MedPage Today has spoken with three team doctors since the games officially began last Friday, who note that organizers have taken many other additional precautions.
The three physicians are Naresh Rao, DO, the men s water polo team doctor; Alex Myers, DO, the rugby team doctor; and James Lally, DO, an American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians fellow who is working his 7th summer games for USA Shooting.
By Michael Pavitt at the Main Press Centre in Tokyo Thursday, 29 July 2021
Swiss sprinter Alex Wilson has been ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reinstated a provisional suspension.
An out-of-competition sample collected from Wilson on March 15 revealed the presence of a metabolite of an anabolic steroid trenbolone.
The substance is banned at all times.
Wilson claimed the presence of the prohibited substance was caused by contaminated beef he ate in a Jamaican restaurant in the United States.
He challenged a provisional suspension at the disciplinary chamber of Swiss Olympic, and succeeded in having the decision lifted on July 2.
A doctor said Jenna Fesemyer would never crawl or walk. Boy, was he wrong. Author: Lindsay Buckingham Updated: 1:48 AM EDT July 29, 2021
RAVENNA, Ohio An open track is where 24-year-old Jenna Fesemyer feels at home.
The road getting there? Hard, but she would take on the challenge over and over again. The doctor said I would be the last one to sit up and crawl or stand, tnd they said I would never be able to walk, the Ravenna native said.
Jenna was born with a complex birth defect, known as proximal femoral focal deficiency, that can cause one leg to be shorter than the other. Jenna s case was extreme.
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