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Dutch rower Finn Florijn has been ruled out of the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19 in Tokyo, the Royal Dutch Rowing Federation said Friday. | REUTERS
REUTERS Jul 24, 2021
German cyclist Simon Geschke has withdrawn from Saturday s Tokyo Olympics road race after testing positive for COVID-19, his team said Friday.
Geschke was staying with the entire road race team at a hotel with teammates outside the Olympic village.
The sand is empty during first women s beach volleyball match of the 2020 Summer Olympics between Japan and Czech Republic after it was canceled, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The Czech team says beach volleyball player Markéta Sluková has entered a quarantine hotel after testing positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) tokyo 2020 olympics
Beach volleyball match canceled after Czech player tests positive for COVID July 24 11:30 am JST July 24 | 12:48 pm JST TOKYO
The very first match of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament has been canceled because a Czech player tested positive for COVID-19.
Markéta Sluková tested positive earlier this week, knocking her and partner Barbora Hermannova out of the Tokyo Games.
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Heat and humidity are quickly becoming a major issue for players at the Olympic tennis tournament in Tokyo.
The temperature soared to 91 degrees F (33 degrees C) and the heat index made it feel like 100 F (38 C).
French Open finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova says she wasn t feeling great, although she still routed Sara Errani of Italy 6-0, 6-1.
Mona Barthel struggled with 10 double-faults in a loss to Iga Swiatek as a searing sun made it nearly impossible to see the ball once she tossed it.
Second-seeded Daniil Medvedev, who also competes for ROC at the Tokyo Games, called it âsome of the worstâ heat he has played in after eliminating Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan.
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FUKUSHIMA/TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - The Japanese women s softball team got the Tokyo 2020 Olympics off to a winning start for the hosts on Wednesday, kicking off a pandemic-postponed Games that the World Health Organization says can be a celebration of hope even as COVID-19 cases surge.
Olympics and Japanese officials have forged ahead with the sports spectacle despite opposition in the country to hosting huge numbers of athletes, staff and media - more than 11,000 in the athletes village alone - dozens of whom have already tested positive for COVID-19.
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