Fears Simone Biles must isolate days from Olympics after US team-mate tests positive for coronavirus at Tokyo 2020

THERE are fears Olympics superstar Simon Biles must isolate after a US team-mate became the latest Tokyo 2020 athlete to test positive for Covid.

The news will lead to one of the faces of the Games quarantining in the build-up to her bid for glory.

City officials in Inzai, 50 miles north east of Tokyo, confirmed Biles’ teenage team-mate had been tested at the US training camp.

While the name of the gymnast has been withheld, there are only two teenagers among the six-strong US women’s team.

Sunisa Lee, whose parents immigrated from Laos to settle in St Paul, Minnesota, is 18, with Grace McCallum, also from Minnesota, 19.

But with the group working together, indoors, there is a serious risk that Biles and the rest of her team-mates and officials will be deemed ‘close contacts’ and isolated for at least 48 hours.

Under rules in place for the Games, isolating athletes are allowed to train individually but are banned from ‘mingling’ until they have provided two negative PCR tests on different days.

And with the gymnastics programme due to begin on Sunday with the initial qualification round, the spotlight will now be trained on the results of the tests undertaken by the 24-year-old Biles and her colleagues.

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