While COVID-19 concerns remain, Olympic competition is already underway, with five women's football teams taking a knee to stand up against racism and for human rights. Sadly, there's no question that this story will likely repeat itself in the days and weeks to come. She says she did everything in her power to prevent the scenario, and took all the precautions. She took to social media to say that she's heartbroken. One of those is Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs who tested positive in Tokyo. It's a cruel situation that is already played out for 5 members of Team USA and 13 athletes from around the rest of the world. Now, athletes who are worried about we're catching COVID-19 are being considered a close contact with someone who tests positive, essentially ending their Olympic Dream before it had a chance to start. It's the highest daily case total since January. Yesterday, Tokyo recorded its 6th highest daily case count since the pandemic began. It's a clear sign that the Olympic Village bubble has in fact been punctured. That number is currently at 91 with four new cases confirmed in the Olympic Village bringing that total up to 8. Now, the number of positive COVID-19 cases for people involved with the Olympics continue to pile up. We didn't get the same comment I guess this time from Olympic organizers as far as potentially having to overhaul this opening ceremony that is supposed to take place tomorrow night. So, you know, unlike, earlier this week when the composer who was removed for bullying disabled classmates as a kid when he was removed, they said he they would not use his music in the opening ceremonies. Obviously, the circumstances surrounding his dismissal warrant his dismissal. So, Blake, one of the details I heard about the creative director who is basically fired, and now where is that now leave the opening ceremony?īLAKE ESSIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, you know, John, not an ideal time to have to fire your creative director just the day before the opening ceremony is set to take place. We begin our coverage, though, with CNN's Blake Essig in Tokyo. CNN correspondents are across the world right now covering the Olympics as well as the pandemic. And while many athletes already tested positive and already withdrawn, including seven who tested positive after arriving in Japan. Now, mostly because of COVID numbers which continue to surge, and with Tokyo under a state of emergency, almost all spectators have effectively been banned from the venues. When asked by liberal public opinion polls, a majority want the games to be canceled. But on the ground below, excitement, enthusiasm, anticipation, all in very short supply. Well, fighter jets made a practice run on Thursday, sky writing the Olympic rings over Tokyo. And in March, the executive creative director was forced out among controversies as well.Īll this raising the question, what will 950 dignitaries actually invited to the opening ceremony get to see. And earlier this week, the music director was forced to resign after admitting he had bully disabled children while he was at school. He is a stand up comedian by trade, reportedly joked about the Holocaust as part of his standup routine. VAUSE: On the eve of what was already one of the most peculiar Summer Olympics in the modern era, the director of the open ceremony, Kentaro Kobayashi, has been fired. president talks vaccines for children, mask mandates for schools and returning to the classroom.Īn invasion of the dust devil sweeping across the soccer field in Bolivia, as players and spectators scramble to get out of its path. On the eve of the opening ceremony, the artistic director has been fired for making anti-Semitic jokes.ĬNN's exclusively town hall, U.S. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.Īhead this year, the hits just keep coming for Tokyo 2020.
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