TEAM GB stars won’t have to quarantine before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics – but city sightseeing will be forbidden.
A 20-page athletes playbook will be published next month detailing all the info for this summer’s rescheduled Games.
Team GB will not have to quarantine before the Tokyo Olympics but will be barred from sightseeingCredit: AFP
According to IOC Vice President John Coates, Olympians will be tested for Covid-19 72 hours before arriving into Japan and routinely in the Athletes Village.
But their movement will be confined solely to competition and training.
Going outside of the bubble to visit Tokyo hotspots will not be allowed.
It was thought that stars may have to observe a two-week quarantine hotel period like tennis players have done for the Australian Open.
But that concept has been dismissed by one of the senior figures involved in the organisation.
Australian Coates, 70, said: “We will release next week a series of playbooks, which will give instructions on what’s required from them before they go to the Games.
“They must undertake saliva and nose testing within 72 hours of travelling to Tokyo, like we have now introduced in Australia.
“They will be tested on arrival. Then they will be tested if they continue to be negative every four days.
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“No quarantine. It’s isolation – they will be limited just to the Olympic Village and the transport to their venue for competition and training.
“That’s it. No going downtown. Lockdown but not into a hotel.”
The prospect of a behind-closed-doors Olympic and Paralympic Games has been mooted by IOC boss Thomas Bach but the deadline for that is March or April.
Coates added: “A decision will be taken on venues. We have to look at the capacity and what the situation is.
“It may be that there will not be foreign spectators. We should leave those decisions as late as possible.”
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Source: Athletics - thesun.co.uk
