The Japan Gymnastics Association said Monday it has chosen three-time Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura for a team competing in a four-nation meet next month, the first international event for an Olympic sport in Japan since the postponement of the Tokyo Games caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The association said overseas gymnasts will not be asked to quarantine for 14 days upon their arrival in Japan but can only travel between their hotels, their training bases and the competition venue — Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo — for the one-day event on Nov. 8 that will only allow 2,000 spectators inside.
The overseas gymnasts, including 23-year-old Russian Nikita Nagornyy, who won three gold medals in the men's at the world championships last year in Stuttgart, will all have to take a polymerase chain reaction test within 72 hours before they depart their respective countries and also test every day once in Japan.