FILE PHOTO: Determine Ice Skating – ISU Grand Prix of Determine Skating Last – Gala Exhibition – Nagoya, Japan – December 10, 2017 – Alexandra Trusova of Russia performs. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Determine skating’s Grand Prix closing was thrown into doubt simply 9 days forward of the Osaka occasion as Japan closed its borders to all non-resident foreigners on Tuesday over considerations concerning the new coronavirus Omicron variant.
The Worldwide Skating Union’s Grand Prix closing is seen as a key step on the highway to the Winter Olympics, with the Beijing Video games set for Feb. 4-20.
“We are going to observe the directions of the Sports activities Company however we haven’t heard something new but,” an official on the Japan Skating Federation advised Reuters when requested whether or not international skaters could be allowed to enter the nation.
The Sports activities Company mentioned it additionally didn’t know what the foundations could be for foreigners scheduled to compete within the Dec. 9-12 occasion. An official added that the company was nonetheless in discussions with associated ministries and companies.
People Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou and Jason Brown, and Russia’s Mikhail Kolyada are on the roster for the lads’s singles occasion, together with Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama and Shoma Uno.
The ladies’s singles occasion shall be contested by Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and 5 Russians together with 15-year-old Kamila Valieva.
In contrast to different international locations battling a resurgence in coronavirus infections, Japan has seen a big fall in day by day circumstances, with simply 76 reported nationwide on Monday.
It had eased some border controls simply final week earlier than Prime Minister Fumio Kishida abruptly reversed course on Monday.
Japan on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who had arrived within the nation from Namibia.
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