Two days before the official opening ceremony, some Olympic Games events have already started.
As we know, because of the pandemic, they must in principle be played behind closed doors.
Except that an unexpected spectator, a bear, invited himself to the first softball game (the women's version of baseball) between Australia and Japan in the Azuma Sports Park in Fukushima in northeastern Japan.
If the event was able to proceed normally with a victory for Japan (8-1), according to a spokesperson for the Fukushima police, the plantigrade had been spotted for the first time on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday just a few hours before the opening of the stadium.
"We could not find or capture the bear and even though there are no spectators at the stadium, we are on alert and looking for the bear around the site," he added.
Return of wild animals
According to local media, guards assigned to security at Olympic venues carried out searches to search for the Asian brown bear overnight.
They even turned on the music and detonated firecrackers in an attempt to flush him out.
Just like in Chernobyl, the Fukushima exclusion zone created by the nuclear disaster of 2011 is marked by the return of wild animals such as bears, wolves but also a new breed of hybrid pigs resulting from the crossing of pigs escaped from farms. surroundings and wild boars from this area.
Still, bears are widely present in Japan.
Last month, an animal was shot dead in Sapporo after injuring four people and wreaking havoc in this northern Japanese city where the Olympic marathon is to take place.
