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Great Britain Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty examined constructive for COVID-19 on Monday, lower than 24 hours after he received the silver medal within the males’s 100-m breaststroke.
Peaty, 29, started feeling unwell earlier than the ultimate on Sunday, Team Great Britain stated in a press release. In the hours after the race, his signs worsened, and he examined constructive for COVID-19 early on Monday morning.
“He is hopeful to be again in competitors for the relay occasions later within the swimming programme,” Team Great Britain stated. “As in any case of sickness, the scenario is being managed appropriately, with all ordinary precautions being taken to maintain the broader delegation wholesome.”
Peaty confirmed his COVID-19 analysis in an Instagram publish on Monday. “I’ll now be specializing in a quick, full restoration to present my greatest within the workforce relays later within the week,” Peaty wrote within the caption of the publish.
The blended 4×100-m medley relay closing is about to happen on Aug. 3, and the boys’s 4×100-m medley relay closing might be held on Aug. 4. Peaty beforehand competed within the Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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Team Great Britain declined to specify what precautions Peaty and the workforce had been taking or what remedy, if any, Peaty was receiving.
The Paris Games have considerably much less stringent COVID-19 restrictions in comparison with the Tokyo Games in 2021; there aren’t any masks mandates or isolation intervals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) didn’t reply to a request for remark about its pointers or Peaty’s constructive take a look at. When 5 gamers on the Australian ladies’s water polo workforce examined constructive for the virus final week, the nation’s Olympic workforce chief informed Le Monde that affected gamers can be cleared for observe once they really feel properly sufficient to coach, including that affected athletes can be sporting masks and isolating from different workforce members outdoors of coaching.
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Peaty shared a step on the rostrum with Team USA swimmer Nic Fink on Sunday evening, after the 2 athletes tied for silver within the males’s 100-m breaststroke.
Video footage additionally confirmed Peaty kissing Italian swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi, who received the gold medal for the race on Sunday, on the cheek that very same evening.
People who take a look at constructive for COVID-19 can proceed to check constructive for the virus for days and even weeks after, in keeping with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
