Open de Australia 2021 Craig Tilley advocates a longer quarantine
El CEO of Tennis Australia, Craig Tilley, has thrown doubts about the measures against the coronavirus implemented for Olympic and Paralympic Games reorganized in Tokyo and ensures that they are not as “rigorous” as those that have been adopted for the Australian Open.
The first Grand Slam tournament of the year started later in Melbourne due to the need for players from all over the world to travel and make sure to comply with the strict quarantine measures before the tournament started on February 8.
“I have looked at the protocols established for the Olympic Games and have examined them carefully. Compared to what we have done, I can say that our program has been much more rigorous that the proposed them, “Tiley told Reuters.
The Australian Open is not as large an event as the Games, although it has brought together 1,200 people between players, officials and the media, who were arriving in the country for the tournament on 17 flights from eight countries.
“I want the Games to be successful, but with the experience we had, I don’t think these measures are going to work.”said the president. Tiley urged the Tokyo 2020 organizers to extend the duration of the Games to allow for longer quarantine periods, with athletes training in their bubbles, as if it were a university campus, before the competition periods of each event begin. Recall that Australia forced 14 days of quarantine and players could only go out to train, with previously assigned partners.
“I don’t see that it can be done otherwise, unless they are willing to accept a much higher risk of spreading the virus, “said Tilley, whose policy is working for him at the moment. In any case, the president of Australian tennis admitted: “Vaccination is not a silver bullet. I don’t see physical distancing, mask use, and quarantine going away anytime soon”, indic.
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