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Post by Admin on Jul 31, 2021 19:13:04 GMT
TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC OLYMPIC VILLAGE PLAZA Olympic Friendships
The Olympic structures are great, but it's values even more!!
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 19:53:20 GMT
Two Georgia judo medalists have been stripped of their accreditation after breaking COVID-19 protocols by leaving the Olympic Village, according to AFP.
Vazha Margvelashvili and Lasha Shavdatuashvili each took silver earlier this week, Margvelashvili in the 66 kg division last Sunday and Shavdatuashvili at 73 kg on Monday. Both reportedly decided to leave the village to meet "one of their good acquaintances" in Tokyo:
"When they went outside of the village, no one stopped them at the exit. So they thought that they could go outside," the official told AFP.
"They wanted just to have a bit of open air, to relax after a tough day of competition, after a tough lockdown period."
According to Kyodo News, both athletes were seen Tuesday night in their Georgian team uniforms taking photos near Tokyo Tower with several other people.
Because their respective events were completed several days ago, both judoka have already left Japan to return home, so it's unclear if they will face any actual consequences. A Tokyo Games spokesman said the pair can no longer access Tokyo 2020 facilities, but that was pretty much already true because of COVID rules requiring athletes to leave no fewer than two days after their competition.
This is the first time any athletes have been punished for breaking the Games' stringent COVID protocols, which effectively enforce "bubble" rules by forbidding athletes from leaving their Olympic Village accommodations except to train or compete.
Despite those measures, the Olympic Village has still seen positive COVID tests, perhaps an inevitability when more than 10,000 athletes are being tested daily.
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 20:51:05 GMT
An outdoor drinking party at the athletes village that broke rules designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 at the Games is being investigated, Tokyo Olympic officials said Sunday.
Organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said “multiple athletes” and other team officials were drinking alcohol at the park within the village late Friday. Police arrived after the incident, Muto said at a news briefing, without identifying the athletes or any team involved or what action, if any, officers took.
The 11,000 athletes at the Tokyo Olympics were warned before the Games that drinking alcohol in groups was a breach of the so-called playbook rules intended to limit COVID-19 infections.
Athletes were told they could drink alone in their rooms at the complex of 21 residential towers next to Tokyo Bay.
In the most serious cases of rule-breaking, athletes can be removed from the village and have their Olympic credential taken away.
“We are investigating the situation and based on the result we are to take appropriate action,” Muto said through an interpreter.
Two medal-winning athletes lost their Olympic accreditation during the week for taking an authorized tourist trip outside the village.
Vazha Margvelashvili and Lasha Shavdatuashvili, who both won silver medals for Georgia in judo, were seen near Tokyo Tower on Tuesday after their events finished, which Muto described as a “clear and serious violation” of the rules.
The Georgian embassy in Tokyo later apologized for the incident.
Athletes are under strict orders not to go outside the Olympic bubble and mix with people living in Japan to help avoid the spread of the coronavirus.
Tokyo and the rest of Japan are both recording record numbers of daily COVID-19 cases during the Olympics, which are being held amid a state of emergency in the city and neighboring prefectures.
The tally of Olympic-accredited people who tested positive for COVID-19 since July 1 rose to 264 in figures announced Sunday. Tokyo organizers said one athlete who stayed in the village was among 18 new cases.
A total of 27 athletes are among the 264 overall cases, though not all stayed in the athletes village.
The overall total includes 108 visitors to Japan, with 35 identified in more than 41,000 mandatory tests taken upon arrival at airports in Japan.
Muto said one Games-accredited visitor to Japan was being treated in the hospital, though no person infected had serious symptoms.
Asked if holding the Olympics had contributed to the rising number of infections in Japan, Muto repeated previous comments from Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga that there was “no correlation.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2021 4:34:40 GMT
Tokyo2020 Olympic Village International Mixed Zone
On this video, I’m going to be showing you the international mixed zone in the games village. The mixed tone is where we normally meet our loved ones that are around for the Olympics . But unfortunately it’s not like that at this year olympics because of covid!! We still have the opportunity to do all other stuffs though. So enjoy once again my video and see more of what we have at the mixed zone at the village…
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2021 19:05:35 GMT
Tokyo Olympics Athletes' village cafeteria
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