The Tokyo Olympics organizers have far issued severe warnings to 16 individuals and revoked the accreditation of several people for breaking the Games’ COVID-19 guidelines.
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Hidemasa Nakamura, chief of Tokyo 2020’s main operation centre had told the reporters the accreditation of eight individuals have been revoked and have paused the other eight for now.
However the coordinators did not give out details on the individual cases, they said each case was talked about with the International Olympic Committee and other relevant organisations.
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is currently taking place as Japan is battling a resurgence of the Coronavirus, with cases reaching a total number of one million on Friday, according to local media. Organizers and Japan’s premier have both repeated that the Games have not added to rising infection in the host city. A total of 404 Games-related COVID-19 cases have been reported since the first of July.
Earlier in the Games, local media reported that two Georgian competitors had their accreditation stripped after they left the Olympic village to go sightseeing.
On Friday, individuals from the Australian hockey group were reprimanded and isolated in their rooms after they had left the village as well to purchase two cases of beers, hours after their loss to the Belgians.
On Tuesday, team officials had said the Australian rugby players and rowers had caused damage to their athlete’s village rooms before departing. The Australian Olympic Committee had also said it would leave it to the country’s rugby and football federations to investigate and penalise different incidents of players’ drunken behaviour on a Japanese Airlines flight on their way back home from Tokyo.
