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Olympia 2021 - Corona quarantine: Athletes strike for 15 minutes of fresh air per day

2021-07-28T20:59:16.488Z


Athletes who tested positive for the coronavirus have to be in hotel rooms with closed windows in Japan. Six athletes didn't want to put up with it - and are now allowed to at least get some fresh air.


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Hotel in Tokyo: Athletes who tested positive for Corona have to be quarantined

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Anyone who tests positive for the corona virus at the Olympic Games in Japan must be in quarantine.

Like the German professional cyclist Simon Geschke, who spoke to SPIEGEL about the difficult quarantine conditions: rooms are manageable, windows are closed, you are only allowed into the lobby three times a day.

Six Olympic participants from the Netherlands who tested positive for the coronavirus no longer feel like it. With a sit-in strike in the quarantine hotel, they have now apparently fought for a quarter of an hour of fresh air a day. She and the other athletes have been stuck in their hotel rooms without fresh air for days and are only allowed to leave their "Olympic jail" once a day to pick up food. And that's "the same every day," said Taekwondo fighter Reshmie Oogink of the AFP news agency.

Eventually, all six athletes went on a sit-in in the hotel lobby.

“We need fresh air because nothing can be opened here.

The windows are closed, the doors never open.

That's not okay, ”said skateboarder Candy Jacobs, who has been in quarantine for eight days, in an Instagram video.

"Not having fresh air is so inhumane, and it's super mentally stressful."

After seven or eight hours of sit-in and lengthy negotiations, the hotel management finally agreed that the athletes would be allowed to stand under supervision for a quarter of an hour at an open window once a day, said Jacobs: “This first breath of fresh air was the saddest and at the same time the best moment in mine Life."

Taekwondo fighter Oogink is passing the time with Instagram videos.

In one of them, she practices throwing corona test tubes into a garbage can - according to her, the new "spit throwing" discipline at the "Covid Games".

Meanwhile, the cyclist Geschke also has a new pastime.

The Association of German Cyclists was able to bring his bike to the hotel, including a role for training.

However, it is not known whether gifts can now also be seen at an open window for a few minutes.

ptz / AFP

Source: spiegel

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