The numbers at their peak, growing concerns in Japan and an entire athletics team briefly in quarantine: The corona situation around the Olympic Games in Tokyo continues to tighten.

On Thursday, the Olympic organizers registered the new daily high of 24 cases around the Games.

In the meantime, the entire Australian athletics team had to be quarantined as a precaution.

And the number of infections also reached a peak in the capital itself.

After a few hours, the all-clear was given for the 41 athletes plus 13 officials from Australia.

They isolated themselves after the American pole vault world champion Sam Kendricks tested positive for Corona.

According to their own statements, three Australian athletes had occasionally had contact with the 28-year-old in Japan.

The Australian Olympic Committee later announced that the tests were negative and that all of its athletes except the trio were allowed to come out of isolation.

However, the three athletes were able to resume their training under even stricter measures.

The Australian delegation assumed that everyone would be allowed to take part in the competitions in Tokyo.

20 athletes infected in Tokyo

For Kendricks, however, the Olympic competitions will end before the start of the infection.

The Olympic third from Rio 2016 was brought to the quarantine hotel in Tokyo, where the German professional cyclist Simon Geschke, who tested positive, is currently also located.

According to a spokesman, the German athletes had no contact with Kendricks.

The organizers reported a total of three new infected athletes on Thursday.

The names of the athletes were not published.

The number of positive tests relating to the competitions in Japan rose to a total of 193. Since the start of recording, 20 athletes have been infected with the corona virus.

In Tokyo itself, too, the numbers have recently skyrocketed.

On Thursday, the registered new infections reached a high of 3865 cases for the third day in a row.

The previous day there were 3,177 cases within 24 hours.

Nationwide, Japan recorded a new high of more than 10,000 newly infected people for the first time.

The main coronavirus advisor to the Japanese government warned of the rapidly increasing number of infections in the health system.

"If the awareness of the crisis is not shared, sooner or later the pressure on the health system will become even more severe," warned the doctor Shigeru Omi.

So far, the IOC sees no connection with the Olympic Games.

As far as he was aware, no infection had passed from those involved in the Summer Games to the Japanese population, said IOC spokesman Mark Adams.

"I am sure that the Olympic Games will have no impact on the situation in hospitals in Japan," added IOC chief medical officer Richard Budgett.

The IOC assured support for the infected athletes who had complained about the conditions in the quarantine hotels.

Work is being done to ensure that the "processes are improved," said Kirsty Coventry, head of the IOC's athletes' commission.

The Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs described the conditions there as "inhuman" in a video message from the quarantine hotel. Geschke also criticized the circumstances in the accommodation assigned to him in several interviews. Now the hotel in Pole Vaulter Kendricks gets the next prominent occupant.