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German clubs set to quarantine to finish pandemic-hit season

camps" so the season can League, which oversees the 2020.
be finished on time after a top two men's divisions, said
spate of coronavirus cases on Thursday it will mandate Hertha had to postpone three
sidelined teams and put "quasi quarantine" from May games and cancel team train-
pressure on the schedule. 3, with players and staff al- ing for two weeks after the
lowed to spend time only virus spread through the
Bundesliga club Hertha Ber- at home or at club facilities. squad, with coach Pal Dardai
lin and three second-division From May 12, they'll move among those infected.
clubs have all had to post- into a "quarantine training
pone games this month af- camp" shut off from the out- That means a busy schedule
ter virus outbreaks in their side world for the last two for a team which is facing
squads. More cases could rounds of games. possible relegation. Hertha
mean there's no time to re- will return to action on May
schedule before the leagues The Bundesliga is due to end 3 against Mainz and will play
have to close for the Euro- on May 22 but more time is four games in the space of
pean Championship in June. needed to hold promotion- 10 days to May 12 after the
FRANKFURT, Germany teams will be confined relegation playoffs before games were rescheduled by
(AP) — German soccer to "quarantine training The German Football clubs release players for Euro the league on Thursday.
IOC approves Tchaikovsky music as Russian anthem at Olympics

LAUSANNE, Switzer- pics in Beijing. Olympic Games and testing
land (AP) — Russian gold laboratories in Moscow and
medalists at the Tokyo It was proposed by Russian Sochi.
Olympics are set to hear Olympic officials after their
music by Tchaikovsky as first choice, the patriotic folk The team will be known by
the replacement for their song "Katyusha," was blocked the acronym "ROC," for
national anthem, which by the Court of Arbitration Russian Olympic Commit-
has been banned as pun- for Sport. It was previously tee, in Tokyo and Beijing.
ishment for state-backed used at skating world cham-
doping. pionships this year. It will use the flag of the
country's Olympic commit-
The International Olympic A CAS ruling last year tee rather than the national
Committee said Thursday banned Russia's flag, anthem tricolor, though official team
it approved Piano Concerto and team name from the next uniforms unveiled last week
No. 1 by Russian composer two Olympics in the latest are in the white, blue and red
Pyotr Tchaikovsky for use at punishment for an extensive colors associated with the na-
the Tokyo Games this year doping program and cover- tional flag.
and the 2022 Winter Olym- ups, including at previous

Tokyo Olympics torch relay has first positive COVID-19 case

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympics western Kagawa prefecture. They slow the latest resurgence fueled by a fect the subsequent legs of the torch
organizers said Thursday that said the officer developed symptoms new, more contagious variant of the events.
a policeman tested positive for and tested positive the next day. Local virus detected earlier in Britain.
COVID-19 a day after his assign- health authorities are investigating. The torch relay involves 10,000 run-
ment last week at the Olympic Japan had 541,496 cases and 9,710 ners crisscrossing Japan for four
torch relay. Officials say the policeman was wear- deaths as of Tuesday. These results month, ending at the arrival at the
ing a mask and taking social-distanc- are good by global standard but poor National Stadium on July 23 to kick
It is the first positive test connected ing precautions and other measures. in Asia. Without compulsory lock- off the scheduled opening ceremony.
to the relay since it began March 25 downs, people in Japan have become
from northeastern Fukushima pre- The report comes as Japan is prepar- less cooperative with preventive mea- For precautions, legs last week were
fecture. ing to declare a third state of emer- sures. run in a city park in Osaka and tak-
gency in western metropolitan areas en off the public streets. Something
Organizers say the policeman, who around Osaka, and in Tokyo. It is ex- The organizers said all participants similar is expected for some legs on
is in his 30s, was assigned to control pected on Friday and is being re-in- and officials are taking the best pre- May 1-2 on the southern island of
traffic on the April 17 leg in south- stated after current measures failed to cautions and that the case will not af- Okinawa.