{"id":474554,"date":"2021-05-30T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=474554"},"modified":"2021-05-31T04:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:54:35","slug":"olympics-qualifiers-must-sign-waiver-acknowledging-covid-risks-ioc-freed-of-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-qualifiers-must-sign-waiver-acknowledging-covid-risks-ioc-freed-of-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics Qualifiers Must Sign Waiver Acknowledging COVID Risks; IOC Freed of Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olympics Qualifiers Must Sign Waiver Acknowledging COVID Risks; IOC Freed of Responsibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A health and safety waiver for athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer includes an acknowledgement of the risk of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The waivers included updated language that refers specifically to athletes being aware of the risk of contracting COVID-19 at the Games and indemnifying the IOC from responsibility over it. A copy of the waiver <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/olympics-covid-waiver-tokyo-athletes-202234569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was obtained by Yahoo Sports<\/a> and reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I agree that I participate in the Games at my own risk and own responsibility, including any impact on my participation to and\/or performance in the Games, serious bodily injury or even death raised by the potential exposure to health hazards such the transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious disease or extreme heat conditions while attending the Games.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The wording of the waiver has drawn concern during an IOC athletes panel meeting, and IOC president <strong>Thomas Bach<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ioc-president-addresses-tokyo-safety-games-will-be-safe-and-secure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acknowledged health concerns that many athletes harbor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s just another issue of many stacking up against the Olympics. The U.S. State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/with-olympics-looming-u-s-state-department-issues-do-not-travel-advisory-for-japan\/\">has issued a<\/a> Do Not Travel Advisory for Japan as coronavirus cases continue to escalate there and it remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/tokyo-olympics-covid-japan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under a state of emergency<\/a>. One of Japan\u2019s leading newspapers last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/major-japanese-newspaper-calls-for-cancellation-of-tokyo-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came out against staging the Games<\/a>. Questions over access to vaccines for athletes are being wrestled with in every country where it\u2019s an option.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 cases in Japan are finally starting to fall after a peak in mid-May, but the country is still experiencing a seven-day average of more than 3,500 new cases per day <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps\/countries-and-territories\/japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as of Sunday<\/a>. Just over two percent of the population <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps\/vaccination-rollout-and-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been vaccinated<\/a>. The concerns are two-fold, both of athletes contracting the disease in Tokyo and seeding outbreaks globally, and of foreign athletes potentially bringing new cases or variants to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC is pledging to have effective countermeasures in place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1108358\/tokyo-2020-waivers-olympic-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via its playbooks for participants<\/a>. It says that the waiver is an effort at transparency about the risks and requirements involved in hosting the Games during a pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympics Qualifiers Must Sign Waiver Acknowledging COVID Risks; IOC Freed of Responsibility A health and safety waiver for athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer includes an acknowledgement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":471722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122087,10],"tags":[122627,120856,121252,893,36537,7419],"class_list":["post-474554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-world","tag-2021-tokyo-olympics","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-ioc","tag-thomas-bach","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Olympics Qualifiers Must Sign Waiver Acknowledging COVID Risks<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A health and safety waiver for athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics includes an acknowledgement of the risk of COVID-19.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-qualifiers-must-sign-waiver-acknowledging-covid-risks-ioc-freed-of-responsibility\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olympics Qualifiers Must Sign Waiver Acknowledging COVID Risks; 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