Greece's national rowing team arrives at Haneda Airport for the Tokyo Olympic Games, on July 1, 2021. (Mainichi/Junichi Sasaki)

       TOKYO -- The arrival of foreign athletes who are set to participate in the Tokyo Olympics that starts on July 23 is fully in progress, as European and Oceanian athletes arrived one after another both at Haneda and Narita airports on July 1.

       The Olympic Playbooks, outlining infection control measures set by The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and others, came into effect on the same day as coronavirus infections are showing signs of a resurgence in Japan. Athletes and others involved are asked to comply with prevention measures such as restrictions on certain activities.

       According to the Cabinet Secretariat, data compiled on June 30 shows that about 130 people from 10 countries and regions had planned to enter Japan on July 1. The German and Greek rowing teams were amongst those who arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Pre-game training camps will be held in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, for the German athletes and in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, for their Greek counterparts.

       Athletes are required to undergo coronavirus tests every day and to limit their movements to within the "bubble system," a method to cut off all contact with the outside world except for the hotels and training venues they are going to use.

       (Japanese original by Yoshikazu Takeuchi and Takayuki Kanamori, Tokyo City News Department)

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