Mindful of the onerous duty on its shoulders of conducting world’s largest sports occasion safely amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, the Japanese government has devised a meticulous, disciplined and excessively harsh mechanism to Covid-test athletes and employees accompanying them at the occasion. Qualifying for Olympics is in itself one of the largest achievements in the life of a sportsperson but worry of Covid-19 spread at the occasion has forced athletes to cross a lot of more hurdles such as successively testing unfavorable in all Covid-19 tests. The Indian Express which is covering the occasion from Japan reported that authorities in Japan have made all athletes undergo repeated Covid-19 tests at unique intervals and a single positive report can finish an athlete’s Olympics journey there and then.
Reports of a couple of athletes testing positive even just before the occasion has begun has shaken all sportspersons to the core with the worry of acquiring out of the occasion in spite of all their difficult work and lengthy-cherished dreams. Reportedly, a Dutch surfboarder and a Chilean taekwondo player have been located Covid-19 positive at Japan’s Narita airport and have been subsequently lodged in quarantine. While the final countdown has currently begun and the world will most possibly get glued to the televisions in the next 48 hours, cent % certainty about something in the Covid occasions is difficult to pronounce.
On Wednesday, the Japanese capital city Tokyo registered a total of 1832 new situations of Coronavirus. The spread of Coronavirus has also reached the gates of the sport occasion as as a lot of as 67 situations of Coronavirus have been reported amongst Olympic delegates participating in the occasion from all corners of the world. The organisers have nevertheless not one hundred % ruled out the possibility of the occasion acquiring cancelled at the eleventh hour.
An elaborate arranging had been accomplished in the run-up to the occasion from the starting of this year by the organisers. Olympic delegates and athletes had to comply with detailed directions months just before they essentially boarded the flight to Japan. Instructions issued for the athletes integrated downloading 4 mobile applications, registration on 5 extranets, filling up dozens of excel sheets along with taking Covid-19 tests for seven days in a row just before their scheduled departure to Tokyo. Suspicious of the testing centres efficacy in unique nations, the Japanese authorities had also asked athletes to get tested only at Japanese certified testing centres.
Even right after landing in Japan, the movement of all athletes was tracked for a period of 14 days with the assistance of GPS. The intended objective of the move was to dissuade athletes from frequenting areas they are not supposed to go to. A posse of safety officials has also been deployed at the hotels of athletes along with the public encouraged to post images of men and women flouting norms on social media. Athletes and sportspersons the Indian Express talked to mentioned that all the discipline and hardwork will come to fruition when the games are inaugurated on July 23 stopping the pace of the world.