New Delhi: The first batch of athletes bonded by the Indian Olympics will leave for Tokyo on July 17, IOA President Narinder Batra revealed on Thursday while expressing disappointment at the rejection of game organizers to allow them to examine earlier than that.
IOA wants the first batch of athletes and officials to go on July 14 and serve three quarantine days mandatory to reach Tokyo.
More than 120 athletes are bound to the game.
Read Alsolympics will be held without viewers after Tokyo declares emergency in the Covid-19 Olympics Tokyo 2020 on Thursday agreed to hold a match without a spectator, after Japan expressed the Coronavirus emergency to run throughout the event.
The expected step is widely carried out after talks between the government, the organizer of Tokyo and Buttauti in a letter to Kate Yoneyama, regional managers (Asia and Oceania, NOC) of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics (Tocog), Batra writing with the approval needed is still delayed, IOA is left without any other choice but to send the first batch on July 17, “said Batra.
However, he did not leak the group’s strengths that would go on July 17.
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We have not received the approval needed from Tocog then we now coordinate for the departure Indian contingent from India July 17 2021 and arrived at Tokyo PA da July 18 2021, “Io a head writing.
“We were very disappointed because our request has not been approved.
However, given the medical protocol worn in India for 7 days before our departure has no other choice now but to depart on July 17 and arrive on July 18,” he added on July 18, “he added .
Also read the Medias welcome bar also in the audience but warned the remaining risks by experts in Japan welcoming the decision to hold the Tokyo Olympics without the audience under the restrictions of Coronavirus but warned that the prohibition would not fully eliminate the risk of rebounding in cases of rebound in Covid 19.
The ban was formalized on Thursday because Japan struggled to stem a new wave of views on Covid-19 cases that went berserk, the Tokyo Olympics will be held under an emergency in Japan without viewers from July 23 to August 8.
The head of IOA also asked for clarification certain certain like transfers from airports to village games, food n athletes, test the flow of distribution kits, and protocols related to pre-opening services such as accommodation athletes / support staff.
He also sought advisors on laundry services during the quarantine period of three days.
Indian athletes who practice abroad, such as boxers and shooters will be released from more stringent regulations that have been applied for those who come from high-risk countries that are beaten by Covid like India.
The first batch of Indian athletes to go to the Tokyo Olympics on July 17: IOA
