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The International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Friday stated if the finalists on the Tokyo Olympics are dominated out of the title conflict because of COVID-19 optimistic circumstances, then each groups can be awarded the gold medal. FIH chief government officer Thierry Weil additionally stated the discretion to withdraw from hockey occasions in Tokyo because of optimistic COVID circumstances inside a workforce lies with the respective competing nations. According to the Sports Specific Regulations (SSR) framed by FIH for the COVID-hit Tokyo Games, if a workforce cannot play a pool sport it is going to be thought-about a 5-Zero win for the opposite workforce. In case each groups fail to show up, it is going to be thought-about a goalless draw.
However, the groups can play the remaining pool matches if they’re able to.
“If both the finalist teams are forced to withdraw then in that case both the teams will get gold medals. It is already mentioned in our Sports Specific Regulations (SSR),” Weil stated.
Terming the Tokyo Olympics as “different from the normal Games, the FIH CEO said a team can still keep on playing even when multiple cases are reported within the group. He said there are still many “ifs and buts” surrounding the rules and regulations which need further clarifications but hoped that a situation where a team needs to withdraw from the competition because of COVID doesn’t arise at all.
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“These Games are totally different from regular Games. This Olympics will go into the historical past ebook. It is not going to be the identical Games as earlier than. The athletes and all related to the Games know very properly that their and public’s well being are at stake,” Weil said during a virtual press briefing a week before the Tokyo Olympics begin on July 23.
Asked about the rules framed for a side’s withdrawal from hockey competition due to positive COVID cases, the FIH CEO said: “There are not any numbers mounted. It’s the groups discretion when to withdraw. If a workforce has for e.g. 6, 7 optimistic circumstances they nonetheless can play. “Until a complete team is affected, I feel withdrawal won’t happen.”
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