COVID-19 forces four athletes out of Tokyo

Brit shooter Amber Hill

Four competitors including a shooting World No. 1 saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed on Wednesday after testing positive for COVID-19.

British shooter Amber Hill, top-ranked in the women's skeet, was forced to pull out before she departed for Japan after testing positive. "After five years of training and preparation, I'm absolutely devastated," she said in a team statement.

Table tennis player Pavel Sirucek became the third member of the Czech delegation to test positive for COVID-19 in the Athletes' Village, the team said.
Chilean taekwondo competitor Fernanda Aguirre was "devastated and very sad", she said on social media, after testing positive on arrival in Japan from a training camp in Uzbekistan.

Meanwhile, Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs described herself as "heartbroken" after she too was forced out. Jacobs said on Instagram she had done everything in my power to prevent this scenario and took all the precautions.

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