(NEXSTAR) — A member of the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics crew has examined optimistic for COVID-19 simply days earlier than the Tokyo Olympic Video games, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee stated Monday.
The gymnast is an alternate on the ladies’s Olympic crew and has been put in isolation.
The USOPC didn’t say if world champion Simone Biles or any of the opposite favorites to win gold have been remoted due to contact tracing. The optimistic take a look at was the most recent in rising line of each day studies of athletes and others testing optimistic on the pandemic-delayed Olympics. The unnamed gymnast was the primary American.
The gymnast, who’s between the age of 10 and 19, examined optimistic throughout coaching, reported NBC Information.
The People have produced the final 4 Olympic all-around gold medalists and captured each main crew title because the 2011 world championships, a streak they’re closely favored to increase in Tokyo thanks largely to Biles’ brilliance.
The Tokyo Olympics, delayed by one 12 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, open on July 23.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
