Takanezawa Town, Tochigi Prefecture, which had been a preliminary training camp for the Kingdom of Lesotho in Africa for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, will use the gymnasium as a venue for outbreaks of the new coronavirus vaccine, making it difficult to secure a practice area. As a result, he announced his intention to stop accepting athletes.

Takanezawa Town has become the host town of the Kingdom of Lesotho in Africa for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and has been preparing to accept pre-camps for representative athletes such as athletics and boxing.



However, according to the town, the gymnasium, which was originally planned to be used as a training ground for athletes, will be used as a venue for outbreaks of the new coronavirus vaccine.



Since Takanezawa Town could not secure a practice area, he told the Kingdom of Lesotho that he would stop accepting athletes, and the athletes were expected to go directly to the Olympic Village in Tokyo without visiting the town.



Mitsuhisa Fukuda, Chief of the Lifelong Learning Division of Takanezawa Town, said, "We had to think about the safety and security of the townspeople first, so we decided to forgo the pre-camp to prevent infectious diseases. I want to go camping. "