{"id":104971,"date":"2021-07-25T03:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T03:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=104971"},"modified":"2021-07-25T03:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T03:56:40","slug":"covid-19-knocks-golf-megastar-out-of-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=104971","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 knocks golf megastar out of Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryson DeChambeau tested positive for COVID-19 before leaving the United States for the Olympics and will miss <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" title=\"the Tokyo Games\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tokyo Games<\/a>. He&#x27;ll be replaced by Patrick Reed.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau, last year&#x27;s US Open champion, becomes the highest-profile athlete to test positive for the virus. He said he was &quot;deeply disappointed not to be able to compete in the Olympics for Team USA.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-2021-live-updates-latest-news-headlines-july-25-2021-australian-swimming-finals-results-emma-mckeon-brendon-smith-elijah-winnington-jack-mcloughlin\/c37ae02a-dc86-439b-a437-bd0d098b91a9#post=da92a6ab-48a1-4ee5-ac7f-7f6ee169931e\" target=\"\" title=\"OLYMPICS LIVE BLOG: DAY 2 UPDATES, NEWS, RESULTS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>OLYMPICS LIVE BLOG: DAY 2 UPDATES, NEWS, RESULTS<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"997eb6b5-adb8-40f6-96bc-058af283fb17\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/997eb6b5-adb8-40f6-96bc-058af283fb17\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reed was scheduled to undergo testing Sunday and Monday to clear himself to compete in Tokyo. The the first round at the Kasumigaseki Country Club is set for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, is now the only two-time Olympian in the sport, which was reintroduced to the program in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Bryson DeChambeau tested positive for COVID-19 before leaving the United States for the Olympics and will miss the Tokyo Games. He&#x27;ll be replaced by Patrick <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=104971\" title=\"COVID-19 knocks golf megastar out of Olympics\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104973,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971\/revisions\/104973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}