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That the olympic village is a safe place to stay. and team usa gymnastics has decided to stay at a hotel rather than the olympic village. the team s coach took to twitter to say that while it isn t ideal, they can better control the athletes and their safety in a hotel setting. so given that, do they expect do the olympic organizers others to follow suit, is this something that they were predicting? what are they telling you in regards to this? reporter: i think as more and more athletes continue to test positive, and it is not just once they are arriving here in tokyo, i mean, we ve had a chilean tae kwon do athlete touch positive. and a dutch skate boarder, we re not sure if she was inside the village, but she also tested positive and mentioned on social media that she is heartbroken, that she did everything that she ....
Read that the gymnastics team and basketball team are staying in a hotel rather than the village. how is that any safer? reporter: well, you know, as far as the usa gymnastics team and possibly the basketball team staying in a hotel, the idea that you are not going to be potentially surrounded by tens of thousands of other athletes in an environment that you might not be able to control will absolutely be attractive to make sure that you don t have any athletes that do test positive. cases in tokyo are surging and olympic-related cases continue to pile up. as of today, 79 people involved with the games have tested positive, five have been confirmed from inside the olympic village. and even though the opening ceremony is only two days away, while it seems unlikely, the tokyo 2020 chief says organizers are not ruling out canceling the games at the last minute although organizers maintain ....