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The Czech Republic has experienced a busy entry into this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. From the beginning, it did not count precious metals, but the number of infected athletes or members of the team. One of them was the beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič.
He told his story and view of the events from Tokyo for the portal bezfrazi.cz. He got into isolation immediately after his arrival in the Japanese capital, he was the first positively tested Czech athlete.
“I quickly realized that I didn’t have to guess what they would bring to my private isolation room to eat. It was still the same all around. A piece of meat, a handful of rice or pasta, ‘ said Ondřej Perušič, who lost his first match under five circles due to infection and quarantine.
But something else bothered him much more. “The main problem was elsewhere. In the medical security of the Czech expedition. I do not want to criticize the entire Czech Olympic Committee (WWTP), because many of its employees have helped us immensely and have really tried to make everything easier. But some things aren’t right and I don’t like them. ” an outraged athlete passed to the problem.
“At the Olympics, the rules were clear and it doesn’t matter who thinks of them. Our medical team didn’t make any of them. He did not believe in a veil over his nose and the whole approach to the pandemic was quite skeptical. At least that’s how his leadership did, ” said Ondřej Perušič for phraseless.
And he added specific examples. “The chief physician of the expedition, Jiří Neumann, seriously offered close contact to the infected people that he would spray their noses with something, give them a kind of gargling, and the result of the COVID test would then be false negative,” gave one example.
“The doctor sent me the medicine Isoprinosin. For a while, it was unreasonably believed that it could prevent COVID infection or improve immunity in patients. It has never been confirmed and it is also a drug with several side effects. It should not be administered without prior consultation. None of them took place, ” added a second example. After leaving the quarantine, he still managed to jump into the matches, but he failed to advance from the group with his teammate.
He also questioned the medical team’s expertise in such a large event as the Olympic Games. “Next time, medical security could be better. I do not think that the Olympics should be attended for merit. Neither sports nor any other. The elite should always go.
When there is a world epidemic, it would be nice to have, for example, an epidemiologist with you instead of one orthopedist. The Czech top in the field, as we send in every discipline, ” he came across Vlastimil Voráček, a doctor orthopedist, who was also to be a zero patient.
“I was not the first to test positively from our expedition. I was the first athlete. While the name of Dr. Vlastimil Voráček remained secret, journalists knew mine almost immediately after the result of the control sample. I told them the truth immediately, ” the beach volleyball player admitted.
Ondřej Perušič on his way to Tokyo with a government special.
Source: twitter.com/olympijskytym
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Throughout the preparation, they tried to do as much as possible with the team to prevent a potential infection. Nevertheless, he admitted that during the incriminated flight during which he was to become infected, he did not follow the measures one hundred percent.
“I probably had a veil on my mouth more than most others, but I also put it down for a while. I immediately admitted it to the journalists, I felt right. I was all the more saddened by the reactions of others. No one else has accepted responsibility for their behavior. Neither Dr. Voráček nor the WWTP. ”
They learned that they were on a plane with someone positive almost immediately after landing. “Everyone got the information that they don’t have to publish anything outwards, and they started looking for who Dr. Voráček was. It turned out that he was sitting a few rows in front of us. “
He doesn’t blame the doctor himself so much that it all happened, it hinders him more than he stood up to it. “Mr. Voracek will repeat around it that it is not certain that he was patient zero. He’s right about that. It’s not certain. At the same time, however, it is also true that he had infected relatives in the Czech Republic and immediately after his arrival in Tokyo he was the only positive. It was because of him that part of the expedition was immediately quarantined. He didn’t apologize for that either. “
Dr. Voráček still did not admit the failure, as did the WWTP or doctors. “It’s a pity, because we are athletes and we were able to lead by example here as well. We were able to acknowledge our failures, weaknesses and evaluate them and eliminate them for future action. Just like we do in training, in wrestling. Unfortunately, such self-reflection did not occur. Everyone involved is still questioning their work of guilt, ” he added at the end of his story for bezfrazi.cz.
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