Beijing Olympics track and field silver medal Naoki Tsukahara new corona test positive March 31 22:54
Naoki Tsukahara, who won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics Men's 400m Athletics Relay, was found to be positive by the new coronavirus test.
According to Fujitsu, Tsukahara-san's track and field adviser, Tsukahara-san was a lecturer in a land-based classroom held in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture on 28th, and then complained of poor physical condition, including fever of 38 degrees 9 minutes. The result of a PCR test at a hospital in Mie prefecture on Sunday was that the test was positive on the 30th.
Mr. Tsukahara is currently hospitalized under the guidance of the public health center, and the fever has dropped to the 37 degrees range, but Shintaro Fujinami, a professional baseball and Hanshin pitcher who has also been infected with the new coronavirus, and Takanori Sakai, a former Japanese national football representative Like, there is a symptom that does not feel smell or taste.
Mr. Tsukahara won the championship in the Japanese championship at 100 meters for three consecutive years, and was the first runner in the 400-meter relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, contributing to winning the silver medal.
According to Fujitsu, Tsukahara himself announced that he wanted to "minimize the effects of his own infection".
Mr. Tsukahara gave a lecture on the land classroom, which has 82 people including kindergarten children and elementary school students.Therefore, Mie Prefecture has a policy of conducting PCR tests for participants in the land classroom. .