Fever slows down Jannik Sinnerbut it doesn’t stop him. After the postponement of the departure for the Paris Gamesexpected today, relief for the evening Italian tennis playerfor which the covid: his arrival in the French capital is now set for next Thursday, July 25. The news of the postponement of the departure – anticipated this morning by theHANDLE – had taken almost all of Italian sport by surprise, worried about the health conditions of the world number 1 tennis player, also number 1 seed in doubles with Lorenzo Musetti. Number 2 belongs to the other Italian couple, formed by Simone Bolelli And Andrea Vavassori.
Vavassori himself will also compete in the mixed doubles with Sarah ErraniSinner’s flight to France – fresh from his exit in the quarter-finals Wimbledon against the Russian Medvedev in a match marked by an illness that forced him to take a short period of rest and vacation with his girlfriend Anna Kalinskaya – it was scheduled for today, four days before the start of the tournament which, from Saturday 27th July, will be played on the red clay of the Roland Garroswhere Jannik starts, obviously, as one of the favorites. The draw, instead, has been scheduled for Thursday 25, the day on which the Italian will arrive in the French capital, who is at home and following the therapy indicated by the doctors.
For sure, three years later Tokyo – when Sinner, at the time still far from the top of world tennis, gave up on participating in the Olympics – with the pandemic that affected everything, there is a ghost that returns to haunt many athletes, even if it is no longer the nightmare of the 2021 edition: covid, in resurgence. The virus is not allowing the Australian delegation to have a peaceful few days. At least two players from the team of women’s water polo have been infected, as revealed by the team’s doctors aussie. For Paris 2024in fact, there is no protocol to follow nor any checks That is.
No tests, no quarantine in case of positivity. And so the covid of the two Australian athletes “is treated – he specified in a press conference Anna Meareshead of mission of Australia – like a flu». In reality, the two water polo players have been isolated and their teammates and members of the technical staff have started to use masks. On the covid conundrum, on the other hand, questions are increasing among those who are experiencing the eve of the Olympic Games at the Olympic village. Risking losing the Games, the most anticipated moment in the careers of many, due to covid, seemed to no longer be a topic of discussion. Instead, the concern grows: the Tokyo edition is (fortunately) very far away but the nightmares often return.