{"id":111430,"date":"2021-08-04T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111430"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:58:26","slug":"russian-withdrawn-from-games-after-covid-19-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111430","title":{"rendered":"Russian withdrawn from Games after COVID-19 blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian athlete competing in karate has been ruled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" title=\"Tokyo Olympics\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> after testing positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Karate Federation said on Instagram that Anna Chernysheva will not be able to compete and that her positive test was confirmed by a second test.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-2021-live-updates-day-10-news-athletics-results-peter-bol-hockeyroos-matildas-sweden-gold-medal-tally\/6cf647d4-1d9b-4211-b9c0-3250f83fccfb\" target=\"\" title=\"OLYMPICS LIVE BLOG: UPDATES, LATEST NEWS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>OLYMPICS BLOG: UPDATES, LATEST NEWS<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <em><strong>|<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/tokyo-games-event-centre\" target=\"\" title=\"TOKYO GAMES EVENT CENTRE: SCHEDULE, RESULTS, MEDAL TALLY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>TOKYO GAMES EVENT CENTRE: SCHEDULE, RESULTS, MEDAL TALLY<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"427eb319-27ed-4c67-bd1d-effecad8c1aa\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/427eb319-27ed-4c67-bd1d-effecad8c1aa\" alt=\"Anna Chernysheva\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was the Russian Olympic Committee team&#x27;s only karate athlete at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>She was due to compete tomorrow in the women&#x27;s 55kg kumite event on the first-ever day of Olympic karate competition. It&#x27;s a new sport on the program in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic organisers also say Algerian weightlifter Walid Bidani has withdrawn from the men&#x27;s over-109kg event &quot;due to health situation which requires him to undergo quarantine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The statement doesn&#x27;t mention the cause. Bidani won gold at the African championships in May.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Russian athlete competing in karate has been ruled out of the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for coronavirus. The Russian Karate Federation said on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=111430\" title=\"Russian withdrawn from Games after COVID-19 blow\">[&#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\/111430"}],"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=111430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111432,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111430\/revisions\/111432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}