Olympics News Live Updates: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the build-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. A Czech beach volleyball player has tested positive for Covid-19 in the Tokyo Olympic Village as an unnamed female US gymnast tested positive at her pre-Tokyo Olympic training camp. With only days left for the mega event to begin, positive cases inside the village with at least two athletes testing positive have made things tough for the organisers. Yesterday, former distance runner Tegla Loroupe, the chief of mission for the IOC’s Refugee Olympic Team, has tested positive for COVID-19, two people with knowledge of her condition had told The Associated Press. The latest news today has been that US tennis player Coco Gauff has tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing her to pull out of the Tokyo Olympics.
Indian athletes have started their final preparations in Tokyo as they reached Japan ahead of the Olympics. Indian archery team, table tennis stars Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran as well as Badminton players began their training.
