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Tokyo Olympics: nine members of the staff of the French basketball team isolated from the team, the players not concerned

2021-07-24T03:40:31.798Z


On the eve of the entry into the running of Rudy Gobert and the Blues this Sunday against the United States, it was announced that part of the management


Nicolas Batum and his partners will not start their Olympic tournament until early afternoon French hours.

But on the eve of its entry into the running in the heavyweight clash that will oppose Team USA, the French basketball team is, quite involuntarily, already talking about it.

In a press release released at the end of the morning in Japan, the French Olympic committee, without giving names, revealed that part of Vincent Collet's staff had been removed from the rest of the team shortly after his arrival at the Japan.

In total, nine members of the French team have been placed in solitary confinement since July 19 since they were considered by the Japanese authorities as a "contact case", following the positive test of a passenger who shared the same flight as them to Tokyo on July 14.

No player concerned

The staff members "were therefore kept away from the rest of the group in compliance with sanitary procedures and all protective measures were taken: saliva tests from July 14, then daily nasopharyngeal PCR tests and isolation. from July 19, the statement explains. The CNOSF staff compensated for the federal technical and medical staff concerned who can no longer provide direct care or intervene with the athletes. "

Good news, however, since on the one hand no player on the team is concerned and on the other hand, all the tests carried out for ten days have always been negative. "Under these conditions," the press release goes on, "the French delegation therefore hopes that these restrictions will be lifted so that the men's 5x5 basketball team can start the Olympic tournament calmly and in conditions that comply with the sporting stakes. "

Source: leparis

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