Samoa\u2019s Olympic committee informed recently that it is going to withdraw its weightlifting team from the Tokyo Olympics which is starting on July 23 due to the COVID-19 surge. They added that the rest of the athletes would attend. The denial for weightlifters was due to the latest setback for Japan\u2019s fraught efforts to stage the world\u2019s biggest sporting event during a pandemic after it was delayed last year.<\/p>\n
Through telephone, the President of the Pacific nation\u2019s Olympic committee, Patrick Fepuleai told Reuters, \u201d The only team that cannot travel is the weightlifting team, which is based here in Samoa.\u201d He added, \u201cWe are still sending a team to the Olympics and our teams are scattered all around.\u201d Tuaopepe Jerry Wallwork, the boss of Samoa\u2019s weightlifting said regarding the decision to Reuters, \u201cIt\u2019s terrible, it\u2019s disheartening, it\u2019s very disheartening. I will now speak to my lifters this afternoon and inform this bad news.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tokyo has suspected 714 cases on Wednesday which is the highest in more than a month, as domestic media informed officials were weighing an extension of prevention measures for as much as a month beyond July 12, the current end date. Along with Samoa weightlifters, many athletes across the globe withdraw due to COVID-19 or because of injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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