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Tokyo 2021 Olympic athletes would face tracking apps

2016 Rio Olympics - Athletics - Final - Men's Marathon - Sambodromo - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 21/08/2016. Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) of Kenya celebrates after winning the race. [REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha]

Olympic athletes could face strict controls on movement and repeated Covid-19 tests under measures discussed yesterday by a task force charged with finding ways to safely hold the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games.

With less than a year until the Olympics, organisers and Japanese officials met for the second time with a long list of possible requirements on the agenda.

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