- IOC reveals China has offered vaccines to Tokyo and Beijing Olympic athletes
The Chinese Olympic Committee has offered vaccine doses to be used for participants at this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the Beijing Winter Games in 2022, the International Olympic Committee confirmed on Thursday.
“The IOC has received a kind offer from the Chinese Olympic Committee, hosts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, to make additional vaccine doses available to participants in both editions of the Games,” the IOC president, Thomas Bach, said.
“The Chinese Olympic Committee is ready in cooperation with the IOC to make these additional doses available … either via collaboration with international partners or directly in countries where agreements regarding Chinese vaccines are in place.”
Bach was addressing an online presentation by the new Tokyo Games chief, Seiko Hashimoto. He did not provide any details on the number of doses. More than 10,000 athletes will take part in the Olympics, with several thousands more involved as coaching staff, media, volunteers and officials.
“The IOC will pay for the additional doses of vaccines not only for Olympic but also Paralympic teams,” Bach added. “For each of these doses the IOC will pay for two doses more which can be made available to the respective countries’ population.”
Bach, who was re-elected for a second term as president earlier this week, also said “a significant number” of Olympic athletes have already received vaccines. “The IOC will make every effort to have as many participants arriving already vaccinated in Japan,” he said. “I can inform you that a significant number of Olympic teams have been vaccinated in line with national guidelines.”: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...cines-athletes
- Tokyo Olympics to go ahead this summer — but without foreign spectators, national news agency says
Japan has decided to bar foreign spectators from this summer's Tokyo Olympics, the Kyodo news agency said on Tuesday, citing government officials. The decision, which hadn't been publicly confirmed by Japanese officials, comes after weeks of mounting pressure from a public worried about visitors who could carry the coronavirus into the country, including some highly-contagious new variants.: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tokyo-o...-fans-allowed/
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