Tokyo: Olympic champions in the Tokyo match starting next week they can forget their medals hanging on their necks when they stand on the podium, shaking hands with officials and absorbing their success.
Instead, the three medals will be served in trays to athletes on the podium and they then have to hang them on their own neck in front of empty stands.
There is also no handshake or hug.
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“The medal will not be given in the neck,” President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach told the virtual media round table on Wednesday.
“They will be presented to athletes on the tray and athletes will take his medal or himself.” “This will ensure the person who will put a medal in the tray will do it with disinfected gloves.
Presenter and athletes will wear a mask.
There will be no handshake and no arms during the ceremony,” he added.
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