{"id":22576,"date":"2021-07-11T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T08:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=124443"},"modified":"2021-07-11T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T08:36:51","slug":"tokyo-olympics-due-to-covid-19-if-one-finalist-forced-out-there-will-be-no-match-for-bronze-medal-in-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-due-to-covid-19-if-one-finalist-forced-out-there-will-be-no-match-for-bronze-medal-in-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Due to COVID-19, if one finalist forced out, there will be no match for bronze medal in hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one finalist is forced out in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 because of COVID-19 as the afflicted side\u2019s last-four stage opponent would be elevated to their summit clash. The Sport-Specific Regulations (SSR) has been developed jointly by International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Federations (IFs) to determine the impact of a confirmed positive COVID-19 case and its management in competition formats and structures.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations developed for hockey read, \u201cIn Hockey, teams unable t compete due to COVID-19 will not be disqualified and will be marked as DNS (Did Not Start). If a team is unable to participate in the final, the team that was eliminated by the COVID-19 impacted team will be brought into the final to compete for the medal on the field of play. The other losing semi-finalist will be awarded the bronze medal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IOC developed SSR as a contingency measure that will put in motion in case a confirmed COVID-19 case is reported in any sport to ensure smooth conduct of events.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo Olympics is starting from July 23 to August without crowds due to extraordinary circumstances owing to the raging COVID-19 pandemic. The Japanese government barred spectators to enter the venues to control the spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one finalist is forced out in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 because of COVID-19 as the afflicted side\u2019s last-four stage\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":42762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2287,1799,698,186,638],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-if","tag-international-olympic-committee","tag-ioc","tag-ssr","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}