(Tokyo) Municipal leaders are under the kits of a Ugandan athlete who disappeared in western Japan on Friday, which arouses his share of concerns about the ability of the organizing committee to follow the participants of the Olympic GamesTokyo in full coronavirus pandemic.
Mis à jour le 16 juill. 2021Mari Yamaguchi Associated PressThe 20 -year -old man was training with the other eight members of the Ugandan team in Izumisano, in the prefecture of Osaka, the municipal leaders said.
His teammates realized that the athlete had disappeared around noon on Friday when his saliva sample was not collected and that they realized that his hotel room was empty, they mentioned.There was no training on Friday morning, and he had been seen in his hotel room for the last time at daybreak Friday.
After failing in their attempt to find him in the hotel, the leaders warned the police so that they can expand research.There was no surveillance 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the hotel, and municipal representatives still ignore when, and how, he managed to escape.
The Olympic Games will set in motion on July 23, despite the concerns attributable to the marked increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus in the country.The hostess city reported 1271 new cases on Friday after reaching a top of the last six months at 1308 the day before.
The disappearance of the athlete forced the Japanese authorities to strengthen border controls and modify his quarantine policy-if a single member of a group receives a positive test at the COVID-19, then the whole group will be placedin quarantine at the airport.
Japanese authorities have also bet on health and geolocation applications, and activities are limited inside the "bubble" in order to completely isolate athletes from the Japanese population, but driving differences have already been observed.
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Supervisors accredited by the Japanese Minister of the Olympic Games Tamayo Marukawa also shone by their absence to many hotels where athletes must stay.Marukawa said on Friday that she had asked the organizing committee to strengthen the measures and increase the workforce assigned to hotel surveillance to ensure compliance with health directives.
Bach visiting Hiroshima
In addition, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach obtained a mixed reception during his visit Friday in Hiroshima to mark the first day of the traditional "Olympic Truce".
Usually, the visit of a foreign dignitary does not arouse so much reactions, but the Olympic Games must set in motion in a week and Tokyo is in a state of emergency and a good portion of the Japanese population opposes the outfitof the event in full pandemic of coronavirus.
CIO vice-president, John Coates, was visiting at the same time Friday in Nagasaki, the second Japanese city to have been struck by an American nuclear bomb in 1945.
Bach and Coates meet Japanese leaders daily, including Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and the Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike, and hammer their message that the Olympics will be "healthy and safe".He was accompanied in Hiroshima by Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the Organizing Committee of the Tokyo Olympics.
Earlier this week, Japanese news agency Kyodo said Bach asked Suga if it was possible to welcome spectators to Olympic competitions if the sanitary conditions improve during the fortnight.
