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Jill Biden to lead US delegation to Olympic games

Jill Biden to lead US delegation to Olympic games
the olympic village, A city within a city built for the world's best athletes for the Tokyo Games, thousands of olympians for more than 200 countries will be living here preparing for the defining moment in their sporting careers. Normally a place for partying and celebration. This year it's going to be an antisocial sanitized bubble full of covid testing, health centers and staying far apart from one another. At the athletes village plaza, there's everything the olympians will need, cafe bank, internet, hair salon and much, much more normally place for athletes to hang out, mix and mingle instead, there are signs everywhere reminding people to wear their masks and socially distanced themselves. But the majority of Japan still don't want the olympics to happen actually. A protest is ongoing right behind me as their debut in the olympic village to the press, there are 3800 rooms of these 21 buildings to house the athletes. This is a replica of the athletes room. Athletes have to share the room, which some public health experts say increases the risk of spreading covid. The olympians are also going to be sleeping on beds made out of cardboard recyclable, but don't worry, they're extremely sturdy and can hold more than £400. Tomorrow athletes are contact traced and tested for covid every day. If they test positive for covid, they have to come to this fever clinic to get tested again. If that covid test comes back positive yet again, they then have to take dedicated transport to an isolation facility outside of this olympic village and they then lose their chance to compete. They're only allowing two thirds of capacity here at the dining hall and normally place for meeting and chatting. Instead, athletes are asked to dine alone separated by plastic barriers and to leave. As soon as they finish eating after wiping down their seats and the athletes gym, where they have to keep their mask on at all times and will be separated by these barriers. Athletes can only arrive five days before their competition and have to leave within two condoms will still be passed out per tradition, but there are only given as athletes are leaving the village. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build all this after the Games, they'll be turned into residential apartments. But before that this is going to house athletes for an olympics like no other Selena wang CNN Tokyo.
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Jill Biden to lead US delegation to Olympic games
Video above: A look inside the Olympic village in TokyoFirst Lady Jill Biden will attend the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics in Tokyo, the White House announced Tuesday, even as the city has entered a new state of emergency over a rise in coronavirus cases.Biden will attend the opening ceremony on July 23 without President Joe Biden. It will be her first solo trip abroad as first lady.The last time she attended the games was in 2010, when she and her husband led the U.S. delegation to the Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada.This year's games will be held with no fans in the stands, after a state of emergency was declared in Tokyo.A key U.S. ally, Japan has made remarkable progress in vaccinating its population against COVID-19, but the drive has lost momentum because of supply shortages.Jill Biden was vaccinated in January, before her husband became president.White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters previously that a team had been sent to Tokyo to assess the feasibility of Jill Biden's visit. Last week, she said that despite the increase in coronavirus cases, the president still supports U.S. athletes traveling there for the competition.“We’re well aware of the careful preparations, including the public health measures necessary to protect athletes, staff, and spectators, that the government and international committee has undertaken, which is why, as we said, we support the Games moving forward,” Psaki said.Previous first ladies also have represented the U.S. at the Olympic Games.Hillary Clinton traveled to the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games and the 1996 Atlanta Games.Laura Bush led the delegation to Turin Olympics in 2006. She also accompanied President George W. Bush to Beijing for the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.Michelle Obama led a delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Video above: A look inside the Olympic village in Tokyo

First Lady Jill Biden will attend the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics in Tokyo, the White House announced Tuesday, even as the city has entered a new state of emergency over a rise in coronavirus cases.

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Biden will attend the opening ceremony on July 23 without President Joe Biden. It will be her first solo trip abroad as first lady.

The last time she attended the games was in 2010, when she and her husband led the U.S. delegation to the Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada.

This year's games will be held with no fans in the stands, after .

A key U.S. ally, Japan has made remarkable progress in vaccinating its population against COVID-19, but the drive has lost momentum because of supply shortages.

Jill Biden was vaccinated in January, before her husband became president.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters previously that a team had been sent to Tokyo to assess the feasibility of Jill Biden's visit. Last week, she said that despite the increase in coronavirus cases, the president still supports U.S. athletes traveling there for the competition.

“We’re well aware of the careful preparations, including the public health measures necessary to protect athletes, staff, and spectators, that the government and international committee has undertaken, which is why, as we said, we support the Games moving forward,” Psaki said.

Previous first ladies also have represented the U.S. at the Olympic Games.

Hillary Clinton traveled to the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games and the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Laura Bush led the delegation to Turin Olympics in 2006. She also accompanied President George W. Bush to Beijing for the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.

Michelle Obama led a delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.