There are still 5 days to go before the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and a big news in the early morning this morning is that Yoo Seung-min, chairman of the Korean Table Tennis Association and the men's singles champion of the Athens Olympic Games, has "hung up". This is the Olympic people familiar to the majority of national table tennis fans, and the adverse effects caused by this incident are definitely not as simple as the Olympic people who arrived in Tokyo have one more pill of positivity. If in the early morning of August 5, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee notifies the Chinese team that has reached the final of the table tennis women's team, and one of the three main players has a positive nucleic acid test, what should the Chinese Table Tennis Association and the Chinese delegation do? This raises the question of who will oversee the host's testing.
Liu Chengmin introduced himself on the social platform in the early morning of this morning, tested for nucleic acid twice before going to Tokyo, there was no problem, and he also received two shots of vaccines. How come as soon as she arrived in Tokyo, Yoo Seung-min became positive? There are three possible factors -
1. Liu Chengmin was infected on the way to Japan, or even arrived at Narita Airport, which is the most likely.
2. The nucleic acid detection methods in South Korea are limited, and the previous two tests are inaccurate. This is actually very unlikely.
3. The test given to Liu Chengmin by the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee was wrong. This possibility is not impossible.
Judging from recent reports, the International Olympic Committee has only ordered Tokyo to continue to host the Olympic Games. As for epidemic prevention and nucleic acid testing, both the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and Tokyo should be responsible.
The "Handbook of Epidemic Response Measures" issued by the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee and the competition rules when athletes are absent due to positive stipulations stipulate that once an athlete is infected, one-on-one finals such as table tennis and badminton, the participants are deemed to be abstaining after being determined to be infected, and the infected person directly takes the silver medal and the opponent directly wins the Olympic gold medal.
At 20:00 on the evening of July 29, table tennis will begin the competition for the women's singles gold medal, if it is Sun Yingsha to Ito Mimako, the Chinese team received a notice from the Tokyo Olympic Group on the morning of the 29th, saying that Sun Yingsha's latest nucleic acid test was positive, then according to this regulation, Ito Mimachi will be the Olympic women's singles champion. In the same way, if a similar situation occurs in the women's team final mentioned in the introduction, the national table tennis will also suffer similar grievances.
The Chinese table tennis team and our delegation should communicate with the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Group as soon as possible in this regard, and propose that there should be corresponding supervision and review mechanisms for the results of the host nucleic acid test. The Tokyo Olympics themselves were carried out under extremely difficult circumstances, and there were so many infections before the competition began in the past few days, and when the Olympic Games entered the climax, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no large-scale infections.
But being infected or not being infected, there must be a neutral authority to make a final and timely ruling. Otherwise, it is difficult to ensure that the host will not use a similar "fish in muddy waters" trick in the semi-finals or even finals of some projects.