Such / 15.06.2021 12:00:05
Athletes who test positive for COVID during the Tokyo Olympics will not be disqualified, and they will receive the minimum prize they would have won had they gone ahead.
As the IOC sports director, Kit McConnell, of New Zealand, explained at a press conference, each federation has developed a plan to manage the re-allocation of places and prizes in case a participant is withdrawn by coronavirus.
The goal, he said, is “maintain the integrity of the competition“and the classification systems as similar as possible to the usual.
A) Yes, If a team cannot play a final due to positives in its squad, it will be replaced by another, but that team will receive the silver medal.
“And a team that could not participate in the semifinals would be replaced, if possible, by the team he faced in the quarterfinals“, he put as an example.
In individual sports, substitutions will be easier, McConnell admitted, in those that take place over many days, like tennis, than in others that are decided in a single day, such as different taekwondo weights o judo
Athletes who cannot start a race will appear in the list of results as DNS (‘Did Not Start’), not as DSQ (disqualified).
To cover withdrawals, “the highest eligible qualifier” will be used.
It may be the case, said the manager, that a test has multiple medalists: those who win the competition and those who could have won it if they had participated.
“We are not burying the rules of the competition, just we add specific norms before the covid so that an athlete who has reached a certain point in the competition, such as a final, receives the medal or the minimum diploma that he would have received when participating, “he explained.
“We don’t think it’s fair to take that away from them after everything they will have gone through to get to that stage of the competition, “he added.
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