Four competitors including a shooting world number one saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed on Wednesday after testing positive for the coronavirus. British shooter Amber Hill, top-ranked in the women's skeet, was forced to pull out before she departed for Japan after testing positive. "After five years of training and preparation, I'm absolutely devastated," she said in a team statement. Table tennis player Pavel Sirucek became the third member of the Czech delegation to test positive for Covid-19 in the Athletes' Village, the team said.
Tokyo Games: Chilean Taekwondo Player, Dutch Skateboarder Out Of Olympics After Testing Positive For COVID-19
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Chilean Taekwondo player Fernanda Aguirre Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs are out of Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19.
Tokyo Olympics will be played from July 23 to August 8.© AFP
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Fernanda tested positive for COVID-19 on her arrival at Tokyo airport
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Candy Jacobs pens an emotional message on her Instagram
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Before them five other athletes were also tested positive for COVID-19
"I am heartbroken. Unfortunately I tested positive for COVID-19 this morning, which means my Olympic journey ends here...have done everything in my power to prevent this scenario and took all the precautions," she posted.
Aguirre travelled to Tokyo from Uzbekistan with negative COVID report but tested positive in both the antigen and PCR tests conducted at the airport here, following which she was quarantined at a designated facility.
"The athlete is asymptomatic and in good health, but unfortunately she will not be able to compete in this event because the Japanese health authorities impose a quarantine of at least 10 days," the Chile NOC stated. The Taekwondo event gets underway on Saturday. Her coach Jose Zapata has also been quarantined despite negative tests as he was deemed a close contact. Aguirre was one of the eight COVID-19 cases among Games-related personnel revealed by the organising committee on Wednesday.
Before Aguirre and Jacobs, five athletes, three of them residing at the Games village, were found to be infected by the virus but none of them on arrival at the airport.
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The total number of Games-related COVID-cases have risen to 75 with the addition of eight cases on Wednesday. The COVID-hit Olympics will open on Friday and will go on till August 8 without any spectators.
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