Covid ends skateboarders' Olympic hopes
Two Australian skateboarders are "荒廃させるd" after their hopes of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics were 廃虚d by 実験(する)ing 肯定的な for COVID-19 in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs.
A group of Australian skateboarders flew out earlier this month for an Olympic qualifying event in Iowa, with some needing to bank 競争 points to 安全な・保証する a 位置/汚点/見つけ出す at the Games.
A coach and two スケートをする人s then 契約d the coronavirus, 確実にするing they were 閉めだした from competing as チーム仲間s were 軍隊d to self-孤立する.
Charlotte ヒース/荒れ地, 老年の 13, 確認するd her diagnosis on social マスコミ.
"Pretty bummed about not 存在 able to compete," ヒース/荒れ地 地位,任命するd on Instagram.
ヒース/荒れ地 and the yet-to-be-指名するd チーム仲間 will not be able to 安全な・保証する enough points to be part of Australia's Olympic 次第で変わる/派遣部隊, which can 含む a 最大限 of six male and six 女性(の) スケートをする人s.
Poppy Olsen, who is already locked in to 代表する Australia as the sport makes its Olympic debut in Japan, says other チーム仲間s are waiting for the 全体にわたる points (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する after this qualifying event to see "who 捨てるs in".
"Everyone's doing alright, our coach is 承認する, he's got some 冷淡な and flu-like symptoms but he's doing alright and he's 存在 監視するd," Olsen told ABC 無線で通信する.
"Myself (and) another member, Keegan Palmer, we were the only two people who were really 公式に locked in (for the Olympics).
"Everyone else, this was pretty much their last 発射 to get in so it's pretty 破滅的な.
"Really heartbreaking for them.
"There's a lot of people who are very 失望させるd. Just because we (機の)カム in, we're so lucky coming from such a 安全な country with almost no Covid 事例/患者s."
Olsen, who along with some other チーム仲間s received her first COVID-19 ワクチン dose 事前の to 出発/死ing, has 実験(する)d 消極的な throughout the trip.
"I'd be the same 量 of nervous coming over here, having two ワクチンs, because it's still a very scary place and ひどく 居住させるd with Covid," the 20-year-old said.
The 状況/情勢 を強調するs some of the 危険s 伴う/関わるd with hosting an Olympics in Tokyo, where 競技者s, coaches and 公式の/役人s from coronavirus-荒廃させるd countries will descend on the Japanese 資本/首都 that itself is in a 明言する/公表する of 緊急 because of the pandemic.
"We knew what it was going to be like coming over here and we knew the 危険s," Olsen said.
"We all knew the challenges and 手配中の,お尋ね者 to come and compete.
"But it 現実に happening, having a few 肯定的な 事例/患者s, is just really surreal.
"We're all doing the 権利 things. Everyone's trying to be very 安全な.
"A couple of us are worried but we're doing alright."