FILE PHOTO: Athletics – World Athletics Championships – Doha 2019 – Men’s Long Jump Qualification – Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar – September 27, 2019 Trinidad and Tobago’s Andwuelle Wright in action REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
July 30, 2021
TOKYO (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago long jumper Andwuelle Wright and 400 metres hurdler Sparkle Ann McKnight have been withdrawn from the Tokyo Games after they tested positive for COVID-19, the country’s Olympic committee said on Friday.
The duo, along with athletics coach Wendell Williams who also tested positive for the coronavirus, have been moved into a quarantine facility, the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee said in a statement.
The National Association of Athletics Administrations of Trinidad and Tobago did not immediately respond to questions over whether other members of the team have been impacted as close contacts – or moved into isolation – as a result.
The announcement comes after two pole vaulters — double world champion Sam Kendricks of the United States and Argentina’s German Chiaraviglio — were also ruled out of the Olympics earlier in the week after they tested positive for the virus.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery in Tokyo, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
