Live: TC of the Czech Olympic Committee on the problematic flight to the Olympics
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What happened then? Most of the Olympians went to the venue on commercial flights, but part of the expedition set out from Prague’s Kbel on 16 July. And most of the participants later regretted it.
The team test nominated by the Czech Tennis Association Vlastimil Voráček first showed a positive test for covid-19, after which the beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič, who was vaccinated, and the coach of beach volleyball players Simon Nausch, his wife and trustee Markéta Nausch Sluková, table tennis player, heard a good news. Pavel Širuček and cyclist Michal Schlegel.
WWTP chief physician Jiří Neumann (from left), WWTP chairman Jiří Kejval and general secretary Petr Graclík
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
Perusic and his partner David Schweiner lost one important match, Nausch Slukova and teammate Barbora Hermann for the entire tournament, which was to culminate their joint career. After the isolation, Širuček and Schlegel returned without an Olympic start, and other participants in the flight had to spend days in quarantine outside the Olympic village.
The WWTP decided to investigate the case himself and set up a commission headed by Kejval, for which he received criticism from the chairmen of the National Sports Agency, Filip Neusser, and the Czech Sports Union, Miroslav Jansta.
The executive committee was also supposed to discuss today the possible personal responsibility of the representatives of the WWTP who were on board, ie the liaison officer for covid Jan Exner and the director of communications Tibor Alföldi.
The Czech team in Tokyo, thanks to winning four gold, four silver and three bronze medals, experienced the most successful summer games since the Olympics in Mexico in 1968.
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