It turned out that Obihiro City, Hokkaido, abandoned the acceptance of the Czech team, which had been inviting the pre-camp for the Tokyo Paralympics, because it was difficult to prepare for the prevention of infection with the new coronavirus.
Obihiro City is inviting pre-camps for Czech and Argentine athletes to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics, of which about 60 athletes and staff from Czech will participate in eight competitions such as table tennis and boccia. I was making adjustments.
However, as the infection of the new coronavirus continues to spread, Obihiro City has abandoned the acceptance of the team due to the difficulty of preparing for infection prevention such as disinfection of facilities and the impact on the medical system. That is.
On the other hand, for the Argentine team, we will accept it as planned because the competition is only swimming and the number of people is as small as 20 people.
According to Hokkaido, Obihiro City is the first municipality in Hokkaido to give up accepting pre-camps for overseas athletes at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Katsuya Kasai, councilor of the Obihiro City Board of Education, said, "Although the number of accepting countries has decreased, we will continue to accept athletes, so we will continue to prepare for it."
Regarding the acceptance of pre-camps for overseas athletes, there are a series of movements nationwide to abandon acceptance, such as Okuizumo Town in Shimane Prefecture and Kurihara City in Miyagi Prefecture, due to infection prevention measures.
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