Judo team withdraws from Hungarian Grand Slam due to wave of new crown pneumonia diagnoses

The Chinese Judo team in Budapest, Hungary, is currently experiencing a large-scale wave of confirmed diagnoses. It is understood that regarding 10 people have been diagnosed. “Judo God” Yang Yongwei’s PCR result was negative. The conference asked Taiwan to withdraw from the competition on the grounds of risk considerations.

Judo team out of Hungarian Grand Slam due to outbreak of confirmed cases

Judo team out of Hungarian Grand Slam due to outbreak of confirmed cases

A total of 19 members of the Chinese judo delegation were scheduled to participate in the Hungarian Judo Grand Slam today. Unexpectedly, the official website of the conference has withdrawn all Taiwanese players from the competition list, causing concern. It is understood that due to the diagnosis of COVID-19 (2019 coronavirus disease) Tide, was forced to withdraw from the game.

Yang Yongwei won the silver medal in the men’s 60kg judo Grand Slam in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. After the competition, he will go to Spain to participate in the training camp, and another group of people will transfer to Romania to participate in the competition. The two teams met in Hungary a few days ago. .

It is understood that following Yang Yongwei and his group arrived in Hungary, the results of the quick screening were negative. Another group of players arrived in Hungary from Romania, and some players tested positive, and then another team members developed fever symptoms. The Chinese team took the initiative to inform the conference. The conference also requires all players to undergo PCR testing once more.

Unexpectedly, following the PCR results were released, a total of nearly two-thirds of the players were diagnosed. The conference took risk considerations as an excuse to withdraw all the Chinese teams from the competition list on the eve of the draw yesterday morning local time.

The team temporarily stayed in Hungary for treatment and waited for recovery. The virus in the body was “cleared” before returning to Taiwan. At present, only Yang Yongwei’s test result was negative, while coach Liu Wen and others said in a low-key manner that the Hungarian Grand Slam is only an Olympic Games One of the points races, and there are still other plans to participate, which will not affect his path to the Paris Olympics.

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