Chinese Olympic Committee to offer vaccine dosage to Tokyo Olympics participants

Chinese Olympic Committee to offer vaccine dosage to Tokyo Olympics participants

Tokyo Olympics

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Chinese Olympic Committee has offered vaccine doses for participants at this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the Beijing Winter Games in 2022, the International Olympic Committee confirmed on Thursday.

“The IOC has received a kind offer from the Chinese Olympic Committee, hosts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. To make additional vaccine doses available to participants in both editions of the Games,” the IOC president, Thomas Bach, said. “The Chinese Olympic Committee is ready in cooperation with the IOC to make these additional doses available either via collaboration with international partners or directly in countries where agreements regarding Chinese vaccines are in place.”

Bach was addressing an online presentation by the new Tokyo Games chief, Seiko Hashimoto. He did not provide any details on the number of doses. Around 10,000 athletes will take part in the Olympics with several thousands more involved as coaching staff, media, volunteers and officials.

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“The IOC will pay for the additional doses of vaccines not only for Olympic but also Paralympic teams,” Bach added. “Each of these doses the IOC will pay for two doses more which can be made available to the respective countries’ population.

IOC President Thomas Bach was recently re-elected for an additional four year-term at the 137th IOC Session. The Olympic champion, who won gold as part of the West German foil fencing team at the Olympic Games of Montreal 1976 won the re-election on Wednesday with 93 ‘yes’ votes and one ‘no’ out of 94 total valid votes.

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