PotassiumFighting for fresh air, begging for better food, and video switching yoga classes to pass the time: Tokyo’s Olympic isolation ward is becoming a difficult endurance test for athletes infected with corona. Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs said in a video message from the quarantined hotel: “It’s totally exhausting psychologically, and it’s definitely beyond the capacity of many people.” She claimed to be open within 7 days. Fought for a quarter of an hour in front of his window. . “Inhuman” is like this.
Cyclist Simon Geschke was the first German Olympian to test positive for the virus, and in several interviews he also criticized the accommodation conditions allocated to him. He was also banned from opening windows, had hardly any exercise, and could only eat soy sauce rice on his first day as a vegetarian, he said.Then he started from German Olympic Sports Federation A nutrition pack and a bicycle and roller in his room. “It’s a bit like a hamster wheel, but it feels great,” Geschke wrote gratefully on Twitter on Wednesday.
“Unacceptable”
DOSB Chairman Alfons Hörmann expressed sympathy and promised to make further efforts to unpack the gift as soon as possible isolate free. The head of the Umbrella Association also introduced the basic measures taken by the Japanese authorities to the German News Agency: “As the person in charge and the head of the delegation, I said: We have always acted well, right and important.” DOSB’s unreserved approval “. “Even if you say as a person: damn it, it’s annoying,” Horman added.
However, the Dutch made a different voice. Maurits Hendriks, technical director of the Oranje delegation, said that the isolation of the athletes in the hotel was “unacceptable”. In addition to food more suitable for Japanese needs, the senior official also complained about the small room size, the inability to open the windows, and the lack of light.
Lack of preparation
Hendricks complained that although there is a comprehensive manual on corona measures, the association has not fully prepared for these situations in advance. Athletes can leave the quarantine area as early as the eighth day and after two PCR tests are negative. “We never received any information about the quarantine log that we requested,” he said. Hendricks announced a complaint to the International Olympic Committee. The International Olympic Committee and the Japanese Olympic organizers did not initially make any statements.
American beach volleyball player Tyler Crabbe recently reported on his isolated life in the Olympic city. He spends 23 hours in his room a day, and he is only allowed to go down to the first floor to get food. The 29-year-old man from Hawaii said that the best pastime for him is taking a yoga class with his mother in a Facetime video.
Candy Jacobs from the Netherlands said: “This trip is the craziest I have ever experienced. I hope I never have to experience such a thing again.” She described her stubborn few minutes in front of the open window in these words: ” These first breaths of fresh air are the saddest and best moments in my life.”
