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Team USA women’s gymnastics alternate Kara Eaker – who is fully vaccinated – has just tested positive for COVID and is in quarantine, stoking fears that many more athletes and Olympic organizers may fall victim to the Delta variant.
17-year-old American tennis star Cori “Coco” Gauff also tested positive for COVID and will have to miss the Tokyo Olympics.
“It has always been a dream of mine to represent the USA at the Olympics, and I hope there will be many more chances for me to make this come true in the future,” Cori tweeted. “I want to wish TEAM USA best of luck and a safe games for every Olympian and the entire Olympic family.”
So tell me again why we’re holding the Olympics in a pandemic?
Not only have 55 people affiliated with the Games been diagnosed with the virus, but now two athletes have also tested positive for Coronavirus.
As a result, six British Olympic athletes and two team staff are self-isolating in Tokyo after being identified as close contacts of a passenger who subsequently tested positive for coronavirus, and the South African football team just announced that two of their players had tested positive.
Even before anyone arrived for the Olympics, Tokyo had declared an emergency due to the rapid spread of the virus and low vaccination rates.