An alternate on the U.S. women’s gymnastics team has tested positive for COVID-19, just four days before the postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics are set to begin
Yumenoshima Park Archery Field in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Toro Hanai/Getty Images . On Monday, U.S. Olympic officials said the gymnast tested positive on Sunday while training for the games in Narita, which is about 35 miles east of Tokyo. The gymnast and another alternate on the team are now quarantining, NBC News reports.
USA Gymnastics said the athlete is between the ages of 10 and 19, but declined to name her. The team has four alternates: Kayla DiCello, Kara Eaker, Emma Malabuyo, and Leanne Wong. NPR reports that it is unclear how much contact they had with the team’s six primary members. All told, 25 new COVID cases were detected among athletes and other people associated with the Games over the weekend, according to Olympics organizers, but two South African soccer players, the country’s Olympic Committee confirmed Sunday, were the first two athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for the coronavirus. Olympics officials also said that another athlete had tested positive Sunday, but outside the Village.
Two additional members of South Africa’s Olympics contingent have also tested positive in Japan: a video analyst for the soccer team, who tested positive upon arrival in Tokyo, and the country’s head rugby sevens coach, who is with that team training in another city in Japan. All who test positive for COVID at the Olympics must go into isolation for 14 days. Contact tracing is also being implemented, among a host of other safety measures and restrictions.
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