TOKYO (AP) – Gymnasts from the United States, China and Russia will register for their opposing Japanese numbers at a Sunday one-day assembly in Tokyo, considered the country’s first overseas sporting occasion since the Olympic Games were postponed seven months ago. .
The assembly itself involving 30 gymnasts makes virtually no sense, which is that the Japanese government and Olympic officials demonstrate that foreign athletes can enter Japan safely and not spread COVID-19.
This is another step to try to illustrate that Tokyo will host next year’s Olympic Games, even without a vaccine, amid a pandemic.
Approximately 2,000 enthusiasts will be able to attend the festival at the iconic Yoyogi Gymnasium, which will be the swimming venue for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and will host handball when the Olympics open on July 23, 2021.
Last weekend, a Japanese baseball team filled a 30,000-seat stadium to show that enthusiasts can safely attend the occasions.
The Olympic Games are huge and another story.
15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes and thousands of employees, judges, officials, media and broadcasters will participate in them. It is also known whether the attendance of Japanese and non-Japanese enthusiasts will be allowed.
A little more than 1,800 deaths in Japan have been attributed to COVID-19. Japan has largely closed its borders since the virus outbreak.
This weekend’s athletes lasted about 40 weeks before entering Japan, travel between the post and their hotel on special buses, and take many precautions, adding reports that they must bring their own chalk to their competitions, without using a communal food as usual.
Japan’s two-time Olympic gold medalist Kohei Uchimura, who tested positive last week for COVID-19, came back negative several times.
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