Kento Momota Tests Positive for Nucleic Acid, Japanese Badminton Team Withdraws from Three Tournament in ThailandFly into the homes of ordinary people
According to NHK and other Japanese media reports, the world’s number one Japanese badminton player Kento Momota tested positive for nucleic acid today. The Japanese badminton team subsequently announced its withdrawal from the two Super 1000 tournaments and the World Badminton World Championships held in Thailand from the middle of this month.
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The Japanese team is the second team to withdraw from Thailand’s three top competitions after the Chinese team.
The Japanese badminton team originally planned to fly to Bangkok to compete today, but the whole team was stopped after the nucleic acid test at the airport. First, it was reported that someone in the team tested positive for nucleic acid, and then the heavy news came out that the nucleic acid test was positive. It was actually Kento Momota, the most famous player in the team!
Kento Momota is the favorite to win the badminton men’s singles at the Tokyo Olympics this year. Last year he set an unprecedented record of 11 championships in the season. During the New Year’s Day, he wrote two lines on the wishing board in accordance with the customs of his hometown: “Victory to win the gold medal”. Unexpectedly, after only two days of work, he would lose to the new crown virus!
The fans lamented: Kento Momota once again encountered the Olympic spell. It is strange to say that every time Kento Momota goes to the Olympics, he runs into trouble. At the Rio Olympics 5 years ago, he was expelled from the national team by the Japan Badminton Association at the beginning of 2016 because of his involvement in gambling. 2020 was originally the year of the Tokyo Olympics. He encountered a car accident in Malaysia. The chance was difficult. He also suffered a fractured orbit. After the Tokyo Olympics changed to 2021, just a few days after the New Year, he suddenly contracted new crown pneumonia.
It is still unclear about the latest situation of Kento Momota, but judging from the situation where he plans to compete with the team, at least there are no obvious symptoms before the nucleic acid test.
At the end of last year, Kento Momota was in good form in the National Badminton Championships in Japan and easily won the men’s singles championship. This was also the first official game that Kento Momota participated in after he recovered from his injury. After the game, he returned to his club for training. On the evening of January 2nd, members of the Japanese national team gathered at the National Training Center in Tokyo, preparing to set off for Thailand today. But what I didn’t expect was that Kento Momota was diagnosed with the new crown pneumonia virus just before departure at the airport.
Japan is currently being hit by a new wave of epidemics. The epidemic in the metropolitan area centered on Tokyo is particularly serious. The Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, joined forces with Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba prefectures, where the epidemic is more severe, to request the Japanese government to declare a state of emergency again as soon as possible.(Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Zhiling)
Editor: Wu Xuying
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